Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porto Ricans, alleging that the island is dominated by a political machine and oppressed by taxation, that four-fifths of its 800,000 laborers are without permanent employment, and that drastic remedies are called for. ¶ Governor Len Small of Illinois called to request the President to favor larger appropriations to aid the states in eliminating bovine tuberculosis, although the President is known to be opposed in principle to Federal aid for states. ¶ Senator Arthur R. Robinson, newly appointed Republican Senator from Indiana (succeeding the late Mr. Ralston), called to pay his respects...
Most men of God regard a call to a cosmopolitan, particularly a Manhattan, congregation as a clear summons from on high commanding them to go forth to larger things. Sometimes they see in such a call an honest opportunity for doing good on a greater scale; sometimes they go because they regard New York City as a sink of iniquity in whose cleansing their conscience impels them to assist. But recently, when Dr. Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore was asked to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he refused. Such a rejection was obviously "news"; pressmen hurried...
...affair that ought to have been settled out of court. No matter what the outcome, there was nothing to be gained by trying the suit; no matter what the Rhinelander family may have thought they were doing when they began the suit, good lawyers, lawyers devoted to the larger interests of their clients, lawyers conscious of their responsibility as members of the court, would have found ways to make the Rhinelanders realize what the case would lead them into...
...Scribners ($2.00). Mort Crane was a printer in Indianapolis, and his wife Alice owned a fourth interest in the printing business in which he was Vice President and Secretary. He loved his work and his wife loved the profits?or she would have loved them if they had been larger. So Alice after 17 years began to think Mort was a futile little man, that Howard Spencer, who owned three fourths of the "Press," was a very fine man, and that the "Press" should be expanded. Mort Crane could not think in that way. So there was a parting...
...usual questions which the World Court may handle are not likely to be those which may lead to war. In the main, they will be legal questions about which nations will disagree, which may even contribute to friction, but which would seldom be inclined to lead to war. The larger political differences which occupy headlines, which give us the scares, which feed the fire-eaters, will not often be susceptible of statement in terms of a legal question. So let us agree at once, that the World Court is not a certain substitute...