Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Stanley Baldwin: I contemplated war on China it would have been different, and a larger force would have been needed. But we have sent the force which we have been advised would be necessary to defend our people in the international concession at Shanghai. . . . Every foreign country is aware that evacuation is out of the question at Shanghai. You can evacuate a small population of foreigners in a place like Hankow,* but at Shanghai you cannot...
...reasoning behind such a development runs somewhat as follows: Tutorial systems are expensive. They require larger endowments than the average college is willing or able to obtain. They are therefore re-named Honors courses, narrowly limited in number to the highest grade students. The bulk of the undergraduate body continues under the old plan. Against this stabling together of the old with the new arise two different protests. John H. McDill writes to the Yale Daily News advocating "an enlarged system of honors", through which "More than the present limited few undergraduates would be enabled to engage in serious, intensive...
Sirs: I am one of those who like TIME, but find the type entirely too small. For Heaven's sake give us less reading matter and larger type. Everyone is complaining of it. If you will enlarge the type and assure you there is a great demand for it, I will renew my son's subscription with pleasure but otherwise-not. All the magazines are taking notice of the demand of the public for good type. M. AMES CUSHMAN...
...necessary appropriation of athletic funds, if such participation seemed desirable. The result of a questionnaire sent out on January 25 to 1145 members of all departments of the University, including the instruction staff, indicated that fully 1100 men would avail themselves of golf privileges, if they are offered. A larger percentage of the Law, Business, and Medical Schools than of the undergraduate department expressed interest in the proposition, the percentage of the departments being 9.5 per cent for the College, 17 per cent for the Law School, 25.5 per cent for the Business School, and 18 per cent...
...reason I go to Sever is that I have always loved the old hall. I love to sit at one of its quaint benches, with the annals of Harvard football from 1892 to the present day before me, tying the shade string into an ever larger and higher, knot, which mounts the string so fast and far that I have to stand on the bench and finally scale the wall itself to keep up with it. And then I love to put my pencil in a little depression in the top of the bench and watch it actually come...