Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interests in China are not so large as those of Great Britain, and they are to a larger extent philanthropie. Britain has been bullying China since 1842; for over three quarters of a century she has been grinding unequal rights of trade and property from the Chinese, and of late years forcing upon them the lucrative opium trade. An aggressive policy in China will merely reap for us a share of the odium of which Britain has sown the seeds. Our marines will be serving foreign interests as much...
...very pretty, your account of the eastern intercollegiate glee club contest in TIME this week [March 28], but why not tell also about the far larger and more important National intercollegiate glee club contest, which I heard here in Chicago? Northwestern, Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan, Wabash, Knox, Notre Dame, Grinnell and Milliken sang, and sang beautifully. Why the winners of the eastern contest were not there to pit themselves against our melodious Northwestern, I cannot guess. Northwestern won, with Illinois and Iowa tied for second and Purdue third. TIME-would have had something to say if it had only heard...
...whether crime may not be, after all, a misunderstood form of virtue, that has interfere. Such men, to who any new movement is interesting and original, and a pernicious influence in the country an through their grasshopper like stridency have always given the impression that their numbers are much larger than they really...
When the Harvard cases finally do come up, the defense will have a larger array of witnesses than before with which to fight the issue. The trial, however, will not be so involved inasmuch as there are fewer defendants than formerly...
...Harvard Fund in order to raise the gift of $150,000 which tradition demands from each class upon the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation, because of its obvious advantages. In the first place, granting an equal response from the members of the class, the return will be much larger in 25 years than under the insurance plan, where much money is bound to be dissipated in lapsed policies and in profit for the insurance company. At the same time the chief idea of the insurance plan is gained; that is, the spreading of the burden over the full period...