Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy and Belgium, with debts to the U. S. of four billions, two billions, half a billion dollars respectively, expressed their intention of funding their debts, the nations with smaller debts-CzechoSlovakia, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania-followed suit...
...which currents make a back-water accumulating flotsam. The masses and banks of sargassum weed impeded Columbus for a fortnight on his first voyage to the New World (September, 1492). Improbable tales are told of ships embedded permanently; of seamonsters that make the spot their home. Smaller sargassum drifts are found north of Hawaii, southeast of New Zealand, southwest of Australia...
This year the date was set forward at the last minute, by President Coolidge's request, to July 4 (TIME, June 15). War Department officials attributed the smaller showing this year to the short notice given, to the fact that the day was a holiday...
...present time, the state of Maine is lacking woefully in its support of its state university. It has departed somewhat from an absolutely inadequate appropriation in 1922, but it is still far from realizing its obligations, and even from adopting as generous an attitude as that shown by smaller and poorer states...
...been told that, if the Maine trustees accepted his resignation, he might succeed no less a person than the late Marion LeRoy Burton, as President of the University of Michigan. A man of less lively principles might have glossed over any criticisms he entertained for his old, smaller position, thoughtless of anything but his great advancement...