Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire flooded area through the valley was estimated at 15,000 square miles, an area larger than Belgium, three times the size of Connecticut; almost as large as Switzerland...
...transmitted to the new University plate, on the design for which Assistant Professor Conant was already it work at the time of the recent discovery. The projected plate will have no specific use but it is expected that it will be adopted in a larger number of Harvard Clubs and will probably be used in the University dining hall if one is constructed next year...
...addition to its prestige as the oldest of American universities, Harvard has always been recognized as the one large institution of higher education where all individual social units minimize their own importance and influence in the interests of a larger and finer whole. One may say without any spirit of pomp or pride that membership in Harvard University is an end in itself and all the component parts of the community yield to its superiority. It has become almost a can't phrase to refer to Harvard as the exception which proves the rule: the rule being that fraternal organizations...
...rests. The increase in quantity in students may not be equaled by a similar increase in the quality of instructors, but those men who are fortunate enough to be recognized as great teachers and whose influence transcends that of the subject in which they specialize, should be allowed a larger scope for their efforts. Never before has the necessity of great personalities been so vital; formalism--the octopus of the modern university--must be crushed, and its most deadly enemy is the man whose individuality can cope with its enormity...
...Navy were larger than those of any other navy in the world. Admiral Hughes well upholds the average, being able to look down upon all men who are only six feet in height. Blue-eyed, ruddy-faced, bushy-mustached, he looks the sea-dog's part, is brave and modest, has been termed a "huge, friendly fire-eater." As Commander of the U. S. S. New York he received the Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" with the British Grand Fleet in the North Seas. In 1918 hs became Rear Admiral; in 1925 he was made Commander...