Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishmen the whole affair appealed chiefly as an excruciating, inverted Scotch joke; but a larger significance loomed in the fact that the two groups which bid for The Aberdeen Journal are the gigantic, rival newspaper trusts headed respectively by Viscount Rothermere and by the Berry Brothers, Sir William & Corner...
Although the pristine militancy of student government in the larger eastern colleges is now subdued, the idea's soul goes marching on, and westward. At the University of California, where it flourishes in full flower, the student council found Editor James F. Wickizer of the California Daily Bruin guilty of treason to the cause in "not conforming to the policy of constructive criticism, particularly toward the administration, which has been laid down by the council." The penalty named for further infraction of this rule was removal from office...
...when the Republican Party's busy Beaver man, unopposed in the California primary, obtained his home State's 29 delegates by virtue of some 600,000 votes. Though many a Republican cast his vote in the Democratic primary for strategic purposes, Candidate Hoover's total was larger than the combined totals of competing Republicans in California's last two presidential primaries. That Candidate Hoover is the Favorite Son of California did not explain it, because California's Hiram Johnson used to run for president and California's votes for Johnson never approached this year...
Since his graduation from Harvard in 1921, young Mr. Cowles has gradually taken over the direction of the two newspapers that his father built up with various consolidations. He has given them a distinctly metropolitan aroma, made their circulations soar, increased subscription rates. For he believes that "the larger the proportion of its revenue a successful newspaper receives from its readers the stronger is that newspaper's position...
Boxes and tables will be placed in the Delta and will be furnished and decorated by the Committee. The larger boxes will have room for from 12 to 16 occupants, will be near the Hall, while the smaller boxes, holding from six to eight will be near the apex of the Delta. Tables which seat one to three couples will be situated in the middle of the Delta. Two of the boxes and six of the tables will be reserved for the patronesses, whose names are to be announced later...