Word: larger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only ample space in the front half to install benches for as many as thirty weary students, but also space in the rear half for the files, shelves and other paraphernalia necessary for the operation of the delivery system. Such a remodeling would have many beneficial results: a larger delivery desk would speed up operations during rush hours; moving the delivery desk nearer the stacks would permit an additional increase in speed; students would have a great deal more space to sit down, which would decrease the confusion now prevalent in active periods; and finally, the center of activity would...
...five optional dives used in a meet offer a larger repertoire, there being several new optionals of the "Flying" variety--all of which begin with a swan, then turn into something else. Captain Rusty Greenhood, league champion, Chet Sagenkahn, George Dana, and a host of Sophomore aspirants are now practicing these new methods of getting into the water...
PHILADELPHIA--Villanova College, chagrined because its undefeated but tied Wildeats were not offered any of the larger football "Bow" bids, today refused an invitation to meet Texas Tech in the Cotton Bow at Dallas...
...claims that Harvard is giving a "bad example" to the country by holding pre-season football practice. He states that this evil is the result of having hard games at the beginning of the season, and that in turn these early games are inspired by a desire to secure larger attendance...
...Mail, with nearly two million readers, offered ?1,000 free accident insurance to every subscriber, and the Express, with 450,000 readers, countered with ?2,000. In a few months both were offering ?10,000. The war cost the Express $600,000 a year and the Mail, with its larger circulation, nearly twice as much.* Ten years later another premium war swept Fleet Street and bled $5,000,000 from the Express and its three big rivals- the Daily Mail (1,530,000), Daily Herald (2,000,000) and News Chronicle (1,330,000). The Laborite Daily Herald started...