Word: smaller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cool midnight last week patrols trotted out of their barracks in Riga to take up posts along the empty streets of the 700-year-old city. Telephones rang in army and police posts all through Latvia, and in dozens of smaller towns and villages other patrols went out into the night. Nothing happened, because all good Letts stayed snug in their beds. Next morning they woke to martial law, machine guns posted round the headquarters of the Socialist party, a censored Press and a dictatorship ruling the country...
...funds a series of large fellowships ranging from $400 to $1,200 are to be created for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The intention in this is to make it possible to relieve one potential genius of financial worries for several years rather than give several men smaller assistance for a shorter period...
Granted in a few cases large fellowships may obviously be indicated, but that is the exception, not the rule. In the vast majority of situations, after preliminary examinations, a large group is left within which there is little to choose. If the scholarships be greater in number and smaller in size, the chances of successful choices are tremendously increased...
Despite the fact that the number of men leaving the Houses this year is slightly smaller than in the last two years, an annual exodus is ample evidence that the House Plan has some undesirable aspects. Such a radical change in University life has had surprising success, but it is good time to take stock of the present situation, and consider carefully what changes are necessary...
...wide, covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared, highly emotional. Angered, they hiss like boilers. Frightened, they vomit...