Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show far more the spirit of jolly college students... We may not be able to win..." he concludes (after announcing that we are reputed to be "too dignified to have a peppy cheer"), "but certainly in our Band music, our singing, and our cheering, we ought to win a larger measure of approbation from those attending the games." Mr. King's criticisms are apparently made in all seriousness...
...quarrel with the Secretary of the Navy brings to the public mind the similar difficulties of General Mitchell with the War Department. Both were crusaders for reform; both, by appealing their cases to the public, aroused the ire of their superiors; but there the resemblance ends. Mitchell advocated larger expenditures, and accused the Government of stinting the allowance for an adequate air delense: Magruder is on the side of economy, and accuses the authorities of inefficient use of the funds appropriated...
Biggest? Bishop Freeman's dramatization of Washington Cathedral makes it seem the biggest cathedral in the world. It is not Saint Peter's in Rome, the Mezquita in Cordova and the Sainta Maria de La Sede in Seville, of those abroad, are far larger. Washington is like Notre Dame of Paris, Chartres, Rheims, Cologne and York cathedrals?famed less for size than for associations. In America there are notable cathedrals at Mexico City, Santa Fe and Montreal; and in Manhattan there is St. John the Divine...
...able to win in football, but certainly in our Band music, our singing, and our cheering, we ought to win a larger measure of approbation from those attending the games. Delcevare King...
...list for hours and hours; sometimes they last for days. Their commercial possibilities are quickly recognized by hostelries, restaurants, and theatres, and are exploited accordingly. And then buried deep in the tinsel; there is also the game itself. What, however,, is coming to be practically optional. The evenings loom larger...