Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...
...Larger the conversation, smaller the compensation"?porters are leery of voluble patrons...
...personal element in collegiate journalism of the period is plainly seen in the printing of this article. In these late times it is not the fashion for the journals of the larger masculine universities to run special dispatches from their dainty neighbors, but in the Elegant Eighties the editors decided that news was scarce, and after all it was spring, and gave out bulletins calculated to cheer the hearts of their readers. The social revelation of Vassar follows...
Small boxes near the apex of the Delta will hold six to eight persons, while the larger ones near the Hall will hold 12 to 16 occupants...
...presented in its most acute form in the colleges where editors and reporters must also to a certain extent be students, has existed since the earliest days of college newspapers. At that time when journalism was still struggling to gain a definite place in the undergraduate life of the larger universities the much hearalded indifference of Harvard men made the task of the early Herald-Crimson particularly trying. In 1884, the first year of the new daily, protests by undergraduates about the scantiness of the news appearing in its columns brought forth a vigorous editorial answer in which the blame...