Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When newshawks caught up with them at Memphis, Henry Wallace loyally declared: "You know. Rex has been one of the most vigorous fighters for the capitalistic system that I know of. ... Men of Tugwell's courage and insight are rare. We shall all regret that he is no longer in Government...
...Rogers have danced, it is not hampered by a trivial thing like a plot, which after all, has no place in a musical comedy. The dancing is, of course, superb. Miss Rogers has learned in a relatively short time to swing with the very best, and her efforts no longer have that strained, forced effect that was noticeable when she was chasing in Mr. Astaire's wake two or three years...
...best thing that happened in the season just closed, Harlow feels, is the fact that Harvard has completely lost its reputation for being an easy mark, and also the fact that the team no longer tries only to hold down the opponents score, but is out very definitely to win every game. That was the tremendous mental hazard that Harlow had to overcome...
...lurid literary legends are steadily accumulating. It now reposes in the safe of Publishers Harcourt and Brace and is not to be published in its entirety until Mabel Dodge Luhan has been dead for 25 years. Meanwhile with each publication the author's selections from her memories grow longer and more intimate, revolve around more eminent personages in more unconventional situations, until they now total 1,278 closely-printed pages of documentation on a dissatisfied, determined, uneasy career, packed with accounts of youthful esthetic and emotional misadventures as recollected in aged tranquillity...
...amount of the instructor's time, the sum of his energy, and the direction of his main interest prove almost insuperable. The fear, simply expressed, is that the tide is running strongly away from excellent teaching and toward research; further, and even more serious, that teaching is no longer regarded as being truly creative in the same sense as scholarly investigation. Charges of this grave nature, often ably and intelligently supported, suggest a re-examination of the College as an entity in the University life...