Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish Academy, with the old-maidish perversity for which it is famed, withheld the prize for a year, finally awarded it to George Bernard Shaw. Last week's amends were handsome. This year the prizes bequeathed by the late Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swede who invented dynamite, are larger than ever before. Thomas Mann will...
...surprised when Commendatore Jorio asked him to leave the check (already endorsed) overnight, until the fresh bills required could be scrambled for and sorted out. Hastily, when the august robed figure of His Eminence was gone, godless Spider Jorio cashed the check into dirtiest tainted money, cashed two much larger checks also fraudulently obtained for a total of 461,534 lira, skittered...
...teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake of sports is ever gaining a larger following among college students in the East, if not alumni, than might have been fancied some years...
...instance, we at Harvard are to have any outside assistance for our teams at all--and English practice affords the advocate of purely undergraduate coaching small encouragement--we may as well have it for the whole as for part of the season. And as to giving the captain a larger or even, as in some sports here, the sole voice in picking the team, English students themselves generally admit that the evils of the custom definitely outweigh the advantages...
...recently at the Business School for the information of the Visiting Committee, which will meet shortly, it is interesting to note from this tabulation that the smaller colleges of New England, Amherst, Williams, Brown, and Bowdoin, enter more graduate students in the Business School than do many of the larger universities of the country, with the exception of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and that the Williams delegation is close on the number of Princeton men here...