Word: larger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase the security and happiness of a larger number of people in all occupations of life and in all parts of the country; to give them more of the good things of life, to give them a greater distribution, not only of wealth in the narrow terms, but of wealth in the wider terms; to give them places to go in the summer time-recreation; to give them assurance that they are not going to starve in their old age; to give honest business a chance to go ahead and make a reasonable profit, and to give every...
...musical technician Composer Hindemith can give cards & spades to most of his contemporaries. In 1936 he was to have introduced one of his larger compositions at a London broadcast, but the death of King George V caused the British Broadcasting Corp. to ask for more appropriate music. Hindemith, who was to appear as viola soloist, could find nothing appropriate to play. Two days before the broadcast he gave up the search, decided to compose something himself for the occasion. Result: his Funeral Music, composed in a single...
Various texts are photographed so that groups of words appear clearly in a faint background on the printed page, and these groups of words are moved along sufficiently rapidly to exercise the subject's eyes. Successively larger phrases in different firms are provided for reading in different grades...
...most civilized countries the national treasury pays the bills for public education. The U. S. has given the States an area larger than Italy in land grants for schools, today contributes some $54,000,000 a year for vocational, agricultural and home economics instruction. But U. S. public education in general, costing $2,000,000,000 a year,is the affair, not of the Federal Government, but of the individual communities and States. Last week President Roosevelt sent to Congress a momentous report which recommended that the U. S. begin to support the elementary and secondary schools...
...unfortunate result of this fact, they are hard pressed to pay hospital bills when they take sick or suffer a minor injury. Under the provisions of this new service, employees paying a small annual fee will be provided with bed care, examinations, and routine nursing service. A slightly larger premium will extend these facilities to members of their families...