Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...powers of the University during the period of her most concentrated growth saw that the only New England principles to be discarded in favor of others were those of a narrow nature; those which looked no further than the rock strewn hills and stormy coasts and which subjected the larger interests of the country to provincial considerations. What was best in the small New England college would serve more than adequately as the basis of a large representative university...
...pressure under which the friction of rock layers sliding on one another generates at least 1,600° Fahr. Such a hole would produce 4,000 horsepower if only 20% efficient, making steam of any quantity of water piped down it. If such a bore were impracticable, two larger shafts, five miles deep, could be dug by laborers in heat proof, air-cooled suits, and connected by long horizontal passages. At five miles, a heat between 400° and 450° would be obtained. Capable of producing 4,500 horsepower, this type of heat mine would function...
...Roxy Midway Theatre last week abuilding in Manhattan; other architects, contractors figured the blueprints of the Roxy Mansion for uptown New York. Each theatre will seat 4,000 people, will exhibit the melee of cinema, music and divertissement by which Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel has made his larger (6,200-seat) Roxy Theatre prosper...
...larger cities on the itinerary: Detroit, Milwaukee, Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Syracuse, Toledo, Youngstown, Columbus, Minneapolis, Denver, Des Moines, St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Houston, New Orleans, Birmingham, Macon, Atlanta, Savannah, Chattanooga...
...projects by Mexico for Colorado water, which crosses a corner of that country to reach the Gulf of California. But U. S. Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming forced California's hand by eliciting this admission from a California spokesman: "If Arizona is willing to grant California a larger allocation, California will grant her more time for development...