Word: larger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the blazing Arab revolt showed an unprecedented contempt for British might. Rebels gained the upper hand throughout most of the tiny country. British courts of law ceased to function in all but the larger cities. Effective British government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
...Eliot eleven still staggering from the effects of a 26-0 beating from Adams last Friday was massacred again yesterday on Soldiers Field by a title bound Winthrop team by an even larger score, 28-0. A comparatively bloodless affair was the Dadley-Dunster game on the neighboring field, won by the Commuters 6-0, for their second straight victory...
...attempted to calm his ruffled feelings, two exceedingly ominous looking gentlemen, attired in sweatshirts, their swarthy jowls covered with a wiry bristle, silently converged on him. For a moment the three stood watching the milling students and Storm Troopers with a jaundiced eye. Finally the one in the larger sweatshirt leaned over to the Councilman...
...Fleming. "Frankly, I didn't think it would work," said he. "I have performed numerous eye operations, but this is the first in which I have ever used the cornea of a rabbit. The difference between the human cornea and the rabbit cornea is that the latter is larger and deeper. If this operation proves successful I will perform a second operation on Hoffman's right eye, using the rabbit cornea as a base, and over this graft a human cornea. Whether or not his sight will again be normal, or near normal, is problematical...
...Street's pet aversion-invited to speak before the Bond Club of New York, he produced a caustic tirade which suggested the entire reshaping of investment banking and left his hearers speechless with fury. Among tart Bill Douglas' minor suggestions was that investment trusts take a larger role in underwriting...