Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech. Last week President Hoover went to Manhattan, taking his speech with him, the first extra-routine speech of his administration. Publisher Ochs was at the station to meet him, to escort him to a hotel where the Press was assembled. It was the Press in a far larger sense than what the President meets each Tuesday and Friday at noon in his office. This was the Associated Press-a non-partisan organization which collects and distributes news, not for profit but for its members' convenience. Newspaper publishers from all over the land were in Manhattan for the annual...
...specific terms the application of these general principles would mean that the Great Powers, being proportionately larger than the Minor Nations, would make deeper slashes in their armaments. The U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France, Italy, Japan, for example, might cut their armaments in half. Such lesser lands as Chile, Siam, Belgium might reduce theirs by onequarter. All states in a given category such as "Great Powers" would reduce their armaments by the same fraction. The strengths of the Powers relative to each other would then be exactly the same as before the scrapping took place. The advantage...
...grow normally. After a month a needle was thrust daily into the belly region of the slightly smaller dog, injecting anterior-lobe extract of cattle's pituitary glands. Daily the doctors compared their specimens. In a month the smaller puppy had begun to grow faster than the larger one. Soon the smaller puppy was the larger...
...cancer, heart disease, pneumonia and even leprosy people. If their demands for public attention and support have made the undiscerning U. S. suppose that tuberculosis was diminishing in this country, they last week, through the National Tuberculosis Association averred that it has been increasing in at least the larger cities. Thirty-eight cities last year recorded 24,471 deaths, 430 more than in 1927. One softening of the picture was that those same cities increased their populations during 1928. So the death rate for 1928 was the same as for 1927, namely...
...four trees to be planted in the yard of McKinlock, the two larger ones are to come from the lot on which the first of the new Houses is to be constructed. Similarly two of the four trees for Gore Hall, and the two to be installed in front of Standish Hall will be taken from the same plot of ground. The remaining trees, including the four for Smith Halls, will be purchased from nurseries...