Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirigible will be more than twice the size of the Los Angeles. At 50 knots it. will have a cruising range of 12,500 miles; it can make up to 70 knots (80 miles an hour) though at the higher speed its cruising range is, of course, shortened. Larger than any British or German dirigible now planned, it will carry a crew of 45 men. Details as to the number and size of its guns and as to how its airplane convoy can return to it after a flight have not been revealed. It will be the largest dirigible...
...Irish bulls Mr. Smiddy spokes not facetiously but in deadly earnest. He spoke moreover of the River Shannon, not with a gushing Irish tear but as a businessman interested in hydro-electric power. "The Shannon," said Minister Smiddy, briskly, "is the largest river in Ireland and larger than any in England. . . . An hydroelectric installation is being effected in two stages. With completion of the first stage there will be available in 15 months 90,000,000 horsepower at a cost of $26,000,000, thus ultimately bringing light and cheer into every Free State village of a population above...
...facts of life, the editor, however, must exercise good taste. . . . just as the playwright or the novelist must. "And as a matter of plain fact, the editor generally exercises, and should exercise, and in fact must exercise, more discrimination than the novelist or the playwright, because he has a larger and more varied audience; and because his product goes into the home, and to all members of the family. . . . "Such a great and all-pervading influence must be kept wholesome and beneficial; in fact, it must even be exercised in a way to compel literature and the drama also...
...internal comment, such as this of the CRIMSON, can remain at on true to Harvard and completely jingoistic. The core of these quoted paragraphs defines itself in terms of a larger entity than Harvard: it defines itself in terms of American education...
...boxes and tables which will be occupied by the Seniors and their guests will be upon the main floor of Memorial Hall itself and near the apex of the Delta. These boxes in the Delta will hold from six to eight persons, while the larger ones in the Hall will accommodate from 12 to 16 occupants...