Word: largerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomat who began negotiations on behalf of Signor Benito Mussolini with the Holy See. She it was who divulged to foreign correspondents in Rome the half-truths which caused half the newspapers of the world to print maps showing that the new Papal State would be some six times larger than has turned out to be the case...
Certainly much larger is the yet unfound meteorite which ripped into northeastern Arizona an unknown number of years ago and formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...
...Sportsman Pilot, a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of amateur flyers, took the air last week. On shiny paper cut slightly larger than this page, Editor Darwin J. Adams and Managing Editor Franklin Pinkham printed articles and pictures calculated to make as-yet-wingless readers look skyward. Publicist Fitzhugh Green tried to explain why Commander Byrd is in the Antarctic. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, discoursed on woman's status in aviation...
...true in other businesses, the larger and more progressive Companies have definite recruiting and training policies and are constantly on the lookout for college men who may enter their organization and work through the various departments...
Ever since the war, with the exception of the larger preparatory and city high schools, the German language has been overlooked in a high percentage of the nation's schools. The resulting situation at Harvard illustrates the general condition. Faced with the language requirements, hoards of incoming Freshmen are turned over to the German Department to be equipped in a year or two with the reading knowledge of German necessary for the degree requirements and the demands of study in an important language of science. To accomplish this work is a heavy tax on, both the university officials...