Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must continue to improve. The technique of course lecturing and examination will have to be overhauled and adjusted and readjusted. General examiners must cudgel their brains and harden their hearts. The relief to the teaching force, though it should ultimately be very great, may for a time be considered smaller than is generally expected
...grade of C or better is termed "satisfactory". It is understood that the reading examinations will be continued as previously, although under the new conditions they will be taken by a much smaller number...
...Governor William H. Adams shook hands with Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City. In Denver, 50 miles away, citizens rejoiced. Some thought that the six-mile Moffat Tunnel, longest railroad bore in the U. S., would soon be ready for snorting locomotives. They were wrong. Only the smaller pioneer bore,† running parallel with the railroad tunnel, was completed last week...
Under the Triple Agreement a trip to Princeton was considered feasible, but not one to Michigan. Whereas, actual statistics show that the squad left half an hour earlier for Princeton than it would for Michigan, and the expense was equally as great, particularly as a smaller squad would undoubtedly make the trip to Michigan...
...hands of Europeans a painting steeped in old world tradition. Jacob Epstein, onetime peddler, now potent Baltimore merchant, bought last week from Knoedler & Co. of Manhattan for $250,000 Sir Anthony Van Dyck's "Rinaldo and Armida," just at the moment when British art lovers were raising a smaller sum to bring the painting to the British National Gallery...