Word: larger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amended, and returned to-the House, the Administration bill authorizing reciprocal taxation of State and Federal Government employes, providing an estimated $16,000,000 additional Federal revenue, a slightly larger amount to the States...
Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled...
Hungarian troops and planes invaded Slovakia. Immediate objective was the important Ung Valley railroad connecting Hungary with Poland. Hungary's larger ambition is eventually to gain control of all Slovakia, which used to be in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Adolf Hitler, having just assumed a 25-year responsibility for Slovak territory, hurried back from Memel. At week's end, it seemed that Hungary would get the railroad, but nothing more...
...principle the larger the number of members of a department who vote on given recommendation, the greater the likelihood that the decision will reflect broad and representative estimates, and a consideration of different attitudes and points of view...
...commenting on this decision yesterday, Dean Hanford said, "The number of upperclassmen is being increased so as to provide for a larger proportion of the resident Juniors and Seniors in good standing, who have applied regularly for the Houses during the last two years...