Word: larger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Welles cabled to Washington a recommendation that $2,000,000 be loaned to Bolivia, with future tin sales as security, hinted a larger loan to Colombia. (Bolivia, in default now on $60,000,000 of dollar bonds, mostly bought by U. S. citizens, in 1937 seized U. S. oil properties worth $17,000,000, has refused to settle.) But bygones and bargains were secondary with Sumner Welles; he was concerned with a sea wall for the Americas-a wall to keep death out and let life flourish in the great continents within...
...Soviet capital a much larger guard of honor was sent to the airdrome to greet Herr von Ribbentrop than when he came to sign the Communazi Pact which emboldened Germany to plunge into World War II (TIME, Aug. 28). There was even a Red Army band (there had been none before), but Germany and Russia were not yet good enough friends for it to burst into either the Horst Wessel song or the Internationale. As the German Foreign Minister alighted, as he shook hands with the Soviet greeting committee and paced stiffly along inspecting his honor guard, the band merely...
House games today are Lowell vs. Winthrop and Kirkland vs. Leverett. The Puritans and the Deacons are expected to win, but the Bellboys will be putting up a tough fight and may surprise the larger Winthrop team...
Interesting was it to notice that at his record- autographing session at the Minute Man shop yesterday, Woody Herman had a larger audience than did Benny Goodman last year at Widener Library. In fact, two or three of the country's dance band leaders who also specialize in playing clarinet could afford to take lessons from Woody in the art of handling people...
...figures show that a total of 2,353 students are taking individual courses in the English Department. This number is larger by about six hundred than its nearest competitor, History, which has 1,750 students enrolled in its courses...