Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors-expert anthropologists-after laboriously measuring and tabulating the legs and calves of Smith girls, solemnly announce that the calves are "considerably larger than those of Jamaican women!" This is due, they claim, to athletic exercises. Remarkable scientific discovery...
...legs of Vassar and Wellesley ladies longer or shorter than those of Smith College students? Is physical exercise more prevalent at Vassar and Wellesley than Smith, and if so how many millimeters larger are the calves of these young ladies than their rivals at Smith...
...reply is that, during the post-war decade, a period marked by unusual activity in readjustments of this sort throughout the world, the foreign commerce of nearly every major trading nation, both exports and imports, has been steadily increasing. Last year for instance, we shipped our goods abroad in larger quantities than ever before. We also bought in foreign markets more heavily than in any preceding year in our history. For the fourth time in succession our total trade with foreign countries exceeded a value of nine billion dollars...
With these innovations in one of the larger English courses, it becomes more apparent that it is merely a matter of time until the ideal of a constructive reading period will be attained. The present imperfections are still rather glaring, but the new improvements that are offered every year point to it short duration of the present unfortunate experimental period...
...plans Architect Wright has "overturned the pyramids and lengthened their lines perpendicularly." Thus, at the top the towers are much larger than at the bottom. Each tower rests on a gigantic concrete pedestal; each is supported by a core of solid concrete through the centre. Architect Wright explained that his scheme was specially good for a crowded city because there space is more valuable the higher it is off the ground...