Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great consumer unless it be restored to health. If, however, we can help the nations abroad get on their feet, produce wealth, pay better wages and buy, we share in their prosperity. Just let me give you an instance. In negotiating the debt settlement with one of the smaller nations, it was shown that the minimum of existence in that country, a scale at-which the bulk of the peasants are now living, was $31 per man per year. This included no meat, one suit of clothes and one pair of sandals a year. Think what it would mean...
...more than 200 manufacturers of agricultural implements in the U. S., the greatest by far is the International Harvester Co. Another, far smaller, far less staunch, is the Advance-Rumely Co. Both last week made their financial reports for 1925; found the year the best in almost a decade...
...party embarked at New Orleans and arrived at Belize in British Honduras as the point of departure for their trip into the Yucatan. From Belize they took a smaller ship northward along the coast of the Yucatan peninsula, making excursions into the inland by means of the large rivers which flow out to the sea all along that coast. On one of these side trips Mr. Mason and another member of the party came down with malaria and were forced to return to Belize. The rest of the party went on without them and made a number of valuable discoveries...
...Girl Friend. The movement for smaller and smarter musical comedies which various producers have contemplated since Sunny eliminated competition in the more spacious field, has at last unearthed a good one. The Girl Friend is not guaranteed unconditionally, but it offers a consistently agreeable display. It has good music and unquestionably the best lyrics in town. It has a sound enough set of jokes and more than the usual allotment of brisk dancing. Eva Puck and Sam White, vaudeville favorites, are the featured entertainers. They too, if not supreme, are soundly satisfactory. They tell the story of a chicken-rancher...
...their class will hereafter be discretionary with the Committee on Admission." The Committee further announces that in 1927 and after that admission without examination will be limited to schools which do not usually prepare their pupils for the College Board examinations. Such schools are specified as high schools in smaller cities, in rural districts, and, in general, at points remote from Cambridge. This means that students from the big endowed academies and the large city high schools in New England and elsewhere, will be admitted to Harvard after 1926 by examination only. Applications from other institutions, which are still qualified...