Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persons who heard of it thought that such "reasonableness" shed yet more light on the Brand type of politician, if more were needed. But aside from branding Mr. Brand and his kind, the episode seemed to have a larger significance not because of its connection with the Presidential campaign, which is not properly a House affair, but because of the murk it dispelled from the whole atmosphere of Congressional farm relief. Burton v. Brand was declared one of the most significant debates this session...
Conrad Roy Keys, president of the Ctirtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., reported earnings of $794,148 (previous year: $413,317); explained that the increase was "due to larger volume of business and more especially to continuity of operations resulting in better utilization of manufacturing facilities...
During the first week in April, 40 upper classmen, most of them Seniors, will hold office hours and give Freshmen frank information upon courses of study in the various fields. Each field of concentration will be represented, some by one Senior, and the larger fields by several men, one for each important sub-division. The advisers will be men of high academic standing who are qualified to criticize most of the courses in their special fields, and to advise Freshmen of the relative value, interest, of difficulty of the courses as they have found them...
...content with the stirring up of civil tumult, Ex-Registrar Goodwin has taken to the larger field of international diplomacy. The unfortunate situation created by Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among...
...clock this afternoon. Mr. Frederick Orin Bartlett '00 will speak in Sever 11 on "Methods of Story Writing." Mr. Bartlett is well known, not indeed alone to readers of the Saturday Evening Post, in which his "The Old Dog" stories appear, but to an even larger public of short story readers. His talk today may be taken by those hearing it as the words of one having authority...