Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the McFadden national bank bill, after rejecting the Hull amendment, with the Senate's proviso permitting national bank branches in cities larger than...
Navy: Fifty-five ships of the Asiatic fleet, none larger than a cruiser, are commanded by Admiral C. S. Williams from his flagship, the armored cruiser Pittsburgh, at Shanghai. The destroyers Peary, Edsall and McCormick with the gunboats Sacramento and Asheville were also at Shanghai last week. At Hankow were the Isabel, Palos, Pigeon, Villalobos, Pope and Truxtun, under the immediate command of Rear Admiral Henri Hughes Hough. One warship each was standing by at Ichang, Chungking, Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed...
...assume that a boy arrives suddenly at an age which qualifies him to judge all things relating to his own conduct for himself. It is difficult to say how we may remedy a too paternalistic attitude on the part of families but private preparatory schools could administer progressively larger and larger doses of liberty during the last year or two of a student's attendance to decrease the present gap considerably...
...ready for the mason's hand in two weeks, it was learned yesterday through the contractors who are at present engaged in excavating the plot for the foundations. The laboratory, or more properly the new Chemistry Group, will consist of two buildings connected by a tunnel. The first and larger of these is to go up on Oxford Street between the New Lecture Hall and the University Museum, while the second will be immediately behind it on Frisbie Place...
...company, started work on the site of the new buildings about a week ago, and according to the present rate of progress of leveling and excavating operations two weeks more will see the first foundation stones in place. Efforts are being concentrated at present on the site of the larger building, the foundations of which will be finished before work starts on the second part of the group. The exigencies of the grade make it desirable that dirt be available to fill in around the foundations of the first, and it is to meet this need that excavations are being...