Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight. The snatchers, it appeared, were patriotically incensed because a new and larger-than-usual Italian flag had been unfurled, last week, on the 13th anniversary of the day when Italy finally declared war on Austria (see ITALY). The careful telephonic questions of Dictator Mussolini were followed by abrupt commands. Consul Riccardi gulped that he understood, hung up, donned resplendent attire, and fairly...
...complying with the first and deliberately disobeying the second of these two injunctions for good behavior, Adolph Joseph Sabath, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Chicago, has come to command a portion of fame and respect far larger than that delivered to the average man who is neither judge nor peacemaker. During his 20 years upon the bench it is claimed that he has tried more divorce suits than any other magistrate and effected more marital reconciliations. Last week, as usual, Judge Sabath's courtroom teemed with opportunities for making peace. On one day alone he found temporary remedies...
Thirty-three high schools have entered runners, making a total of 425 contenders for the individual champiohships. The schools are divided into two classes, the larger institutions being listed in class A, and the smaller in class...
...enclosing my check for this year's subscription to the Harvard Fund, regretting exceedingly that it cannot be larger, but at any rate I want to be among the list of subscribers; and, insignificant though the amount is, I would like it credited to my class...
...language was generally fitted to use that language in his further college work. Some of the men who held this general opinion advocated the raising of the reading knowledge requirement to a higher standard as well as the retention of the present elementary requirement. A some-what larger number were in favor of dropping one language from the requirements and concentrating attention on the other. Many of these looked back with little pleasure on an elementary French or German course in their Freshman year from which they believed themselves to have derived little profit...