Word: largerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already a necessity in the poorer schools because of less altruistic principles. The expense of an outside coach creates an exhausting drain on the athletic fund and it is often the case that he is a member of the faculty for purely financial reasons. In many of the larger private schools the coach is in closer communion with his pupils because of the mere fact that the administrator of the playing field overshadows the bookworm, at least in the eyes of youth...
Cotton. "14,915,000 bales . . . 14,478,000 last year. . . . For the larger crop, producers received a lower price per pound...
...that enables him to reap riches in business. Mr. Behrman seemed to flounder, to be a little uncertain of his way. This was particularly evident in the second act. The details are revealing, little turns of character are brought out with subtlety and grace, but it is in the larger strokes, the rhythms and counter-rhythms, the transitions from one scene to another, that one feels an ineptitude that, but for Philip Moclier's unobtrusive direction, and the high standard of the acting, would make the play much less effective than...
Midst the hodge-podge of football over-emphasis and larger stadiums, fraternity scandals and college life of the movie type, the report of the Harmon Foundation, made public yesterday, strikes a particularly encouraging note to the proponents of college as a place of study...
...Soviet armored trains which plunged their fangs into Manchuria last fortnight withdrew to their own frontiers last week. But in the areas they had raked and ravaged Chinese fright and confusion grew from panic to anarchy. Soldiers deserted their colors, looted indiscriminately. Hundreds of refugees who straggled into the larger Manchurian towns and Harbin, the capital, had been robbed of all their possessions by Chinese, not Soviet troops. Some were stark naked, plucked to the skin. As usual, a good many fingers had been cut off by Chinese soldiers impatient to snatch rings from old people with rheumatic knuckles...