Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alumni, football is a magnet, drawing graduates back to the college and serving to renew their interest in the affairs of the college; but present overemphasis tends to confine their interest to the maintenance of a winning football team, and to crowd out of their minds completely matters of larger educational importance; and here is, perhaps, the most serious evil of the present situation...
Last week there came from Washington the report of a new attempt about to be made, but in a more novel form. It was represented that Treasury officials have "virtually decided" to mint a new coin, a gold-and-silver dollar. It would be slightly larger than a quarter, of distinctive design, possibly with a gold centre and a silver rim. Banks and merchants are said to have indicated that such a coin would be acceptable, and it would save much Government time and money...
...town where her father, a brokendown politician, and her mother, a purposeful woman, had brought her into the world. She would not let herself be possessed by the adoring little husband who worshiped her while she was meeting the people she wanted to meet, those who lived on a larger scale. It was hard on the people who wanted to possess her and could not. She pitied them but that was all. Her mother she left behind. Her husband pined for her and killed himself. But she was Cinderella. She was bound for the palace...
...Larger Room May be Used...
...adventure or hope than the future years of his career, daily to be occupied in matching his wits with the flat modiocrity of successive generations of adolescent C-students, and patiently waiting till the death of some better man, hardy and long-lived, allows him to slip into a larger pair of old shoes...