Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugh L. Cooper & Co.-building a vast power system (to be larger than the Muscle Shoals scheme) in Dniep-rostroy, Ukraine...
...water piled up with turbulent mountain fury. It swept away rows of houses in single-street hamlets. It knocked out dams and iron bridges, filled up the streets and riverside factories of larger towns; crippled telephones, telegraphs, railways. It took life...
...penny pieces (thripney bits), sixpenny pieces (tanners), shillings (bobs), two-shilling pieces (florins) and half-crowns (two shillings and sixpence, also known as half a dollar)-all these, though now in circulation, will bear new designs. The three-penny and sixpenny coins, respectively a little smaller and a little larger than a U. S. dime, will lose the crown on the reverse side and gain a confusion of acorns, oak branches & oak twigs; the obverse side will retain the King's head. The larger coins will also retain the head on the obverse sides but the half-crown will...
...members were in active life when the events which Sullivan records were taking place; they are amused by the book because in a way it is a tablet of personal reminiscences. The younger people of today, however, the people of college age, form the real vanguard of Sullivan's larger public. They hear witness to the success of his experiment, for he has re-created a period of transition for them, a period with which they have had little or no direct contact...
Whether the mayor will take west with him a record of accomplishment that can be measured in other terms than those of columnar publicity only the next few days will determine. Some of the less confident of the henchmen of the king's enemy are doubtless patching the larger holes in whatever is to be the third act if this one is ill received...