Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library of the University of Louvain, which had stood for four centuries, was destroyed during the first month of the war. For several years the construction of its successor has been in progress, and now the new building is almost ready for occupancy. Beautiful the new structure is, and larger and more convenient than the old, but it is a mockery, a hollow shell that has lost the priceless treasure that once made Louvain the pride of a nation. The manuscripts and volumes, all too scanty, that remained as the inheritance of the present world from the mighty Charles...
After the election of 1924 there were three principal parties, holding respectively 160 and 114 and 109 seats out of a House of 464. Thus onetime Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki was obliged to carry on with a coalition in which his party was but little larger than its chief supporting bloc...
...Thirty years ago I opened an office at Waco, when horned toads were so plentiful that boys were selling them for five cents each. I conceived the idea of mounting a few of the larger specimens and using them for pen racks...
...Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars of gold. It was standard gold. It was, in fact, new gold-from Siberian mines, which now produce $25,000,000 worth a year. U. S. trade with Russia is now larger than before the war, about $100,000,000 a year. The Soviets look the dollar in the face...
...consciousness of this fact causes many a miser, waddling slowly homeward, to ease his crusted conscience by tossing a dime for a beggar to waste in drink and debauchery. Such philanthropy is pleasant but it is not blessed by efficiency. No more efficient is indiscriminate philanthropy conducted on a larger scale. The purpose of the Community Chest is to lessen the indiscrimination and waste of large-scale philanthropy by simple and effective cooperation. Thus, instead of several separate and slipshod campaigns for charitable financing, a city in which a Community Chest functions has one concerted campaign, lessening advertising expenses, increasing...