Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father as founder of the line, had the sagacity to marry two heiresses. Harry Flood Byrd started being businesslike at the age of 14, when he gave up school to take over his father's bankrupt Winchester Star. The Star has paid from then till now. So have another, larger Byrd-paper, the Harrisonburg News-Record, and the 1,500-acre Byrd apple orchards...
...objections to such a state of affairs are legion, but the thought is no less valid. The American student is constantly arriving at a larger estimation of his own importance, and there is no reason why this may not expand to the sphere where he will not offer his valuable services except for the return which he would get for a similar effort elsewhere. Very truly yours, R. G. West...
...John Bull, you refused to swallow our sort of disarmament pill at the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 to Aug. 15. 1927). We offered to limit all classes of ships. You offered, instead, another sort of pill, suggesting that we limit only the larger naval craft and leave unlimited small cruisers and small submarines...
...John, you know that your naval bases in all parts of the world enable you to use small ships of short cruising radius with deadly effect. We are not so well provided with bases, and so we must have larger ships of longer cruising radius. When you propose to limit large ships and leave small ones unlimited, you are proposing to limit only the ships we chiefly need, while leaving unlimited the ships you chiefly need...
Stock Trading on the New York exchange during September was larger than for any previous month-90,906,718 shares. August trading was 67,703,538 shares...