Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total number of ballots cast, 519 was much larger than last year. The vote represents a large majority of the 700 students in the class of 1927. Only five ballots were thrown out, as compared with 51 in last year's elections...
Last week the U. S. Patent Office, making its annual report, signaled distress. It would have to have more employes, larger quarters, greater appropriations. The nation's inventive genius, or more accurately the national penchant for protecting inventive genius, had increased until there was a patent application filed for every thousandth inhabitant-110,000 in a year. The Office found itself with 58,000 applications still on the docket, despite its having cleared up 35,000 hangovers from the last three years. For the first time in history, the Office had felt obliged to rid itself of its vast...
...Janeiro, capital of the United States of Brazil, a republic larger than the 48 states...
Dozens of important men in finance have worked on Mr. Barren's staffs. When they first take a walk with him they feel like Falstaff's page. But he is no antic master, rather always the teacher. Brokerage houses hunt his men, offer them salaries even larger than they get from Mr. Barron...
...quality magazines", as Leon Whipple describes them in Survey Graphic, have been forced to reorganize and to adopt new taedes. The revolution has been on the whole successful from every point of view; the Atlantic Monthe Harper's and Scribner's have emerged from the fray with larger circulations and a new vitality. Brilliant covers and a lack of pictures have attracted fresh cohorts and won back many of the deserters. The chief factor, however, has been the growing belligerency and inquisitiveness of the magazines; no longer do they remain discreetly silent on religious, political and social questions, fearing that...