Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team is far better offensively than defensively, being hampered in its back-board work by its lack of height. But it will be helped by the fact that the game is on the home floor, a good bit longer than Hangar Gym, on which the Tech quintet is used to playing...
Mayor LaGuardia, not an easily dismayed man, backed him up, rapped leaders who prolong strikes, declared that "the longer the division continues, the more irritation and wounds will be inflicted, and the scars will become permanent...
Belgrade was as sensitive as Bucharest to the Allied-German string-pulling in her part of Europe. Yugoslavia's most immediate problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether...
...numbers remain. The new show cannot, from the fame of the old one, provide the same kind of exciting surprise. But on its merits it is a much better show. It is better put together, better paced, better performed. It has four or five downright bad numbers, but no longer any heavy and humorless ones, and it has ceased to be amateurish while remaining fresh...
During the past few days dormitory residents have received from the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association, new conducting its thirty-third annual Christmas seal sale, sheets of the well-known stamps through the mails. Since "tuberculosis is no longer the white man's plague," part of the proceeds will go towards education of the public about other fatal diseases such as cancer and syphilis...