Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King Amanullah of Afghanistan, styled by his Moslem subjects, "The Peace of God." Accompanied by his Queen, Thuraya, "The Starry One," he is now completing a tour of the Occident (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) which has taken him on state visits to Rome, Paris, Berlin, London and several smaller Capitals. Last week the royal party, including Crown Prince Rhamatullah Khan and highest dignitaries of the Afghan State plunged from the Polish border into Russia aboard a new and sumptuous Soviet special train of 14 salon cars. The plunge was momentous because King Amanullah, whose Realm lies between India...
...other hand, the field of competition in the smaller sports is vastly less, and the man who enters the small field has a far greater chance of making the team and hence earning a letter equivalent to the major. If it were not for the qualification of the size, this disadvantage would be such as to make the move an exceedingly unwise one. But Dartmouth distinguishes the value of the sport by giving the football man a seven inch "D", baseball, track, hockey, and basketball men a six inch "D", and the men of other sports a five inch...
Boxes and tables will be placed in the Delta and will be furnished and decorated by the Committee. The larger boxes will have room for from 12 to 16 occupants, will be near the Hall, while the smaller boxes, holding from six to eight will be near the apex of the Delta. Tables which seat one to three couples will be situated in the middle of the Delta. Two of the boxes and six of the tables will be reserved for the patronesses, whose names are to be announced later...
...involved 35 ships and other assets valued at ?7,000,000. Therefore Baron Kylsant merely smiled, last week, at London newshawks when they asked if he expected "trouble" from the Australian unions. Lord Kylsant expects, it was learned, to augment the Australian Commonwealth Line with a few of the smaller, older White Star ships in case the Australian labor leaders are very, very good. Should "trouble" actually arise, His Lordship has but to transfer his seven bought-at-a-bargain ships to service with one of the chief companies which he directs, namely the Royal Mail Steam Packet...
...smaller fry of editors and publishers at the A. N. P. A. convention saw a small electric sign on the ground floor of the Waldorf-Astoria. It read...