Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed their charges with a horrid new thought in mind last week. They had to discover if any other children were criminal morons like George Rogalski. In the classroom George Rogalski had been clever, polite, attentive. His teachers had noticed nothing strange about him except that he sometimes teased smaller children. Last week George Rogalski was in jail, his name was in grisly headlines and Superintendent of Schools William Joseph Bogan, after voicing a wish that every one of Chicago's 500,000 schoolchildren could be psychoanalyzed, had ordered analysis for every pupil who seemed to his teachers abnormal...
Umpire Kelleher, behind the plate last Saturday, had a real mouthful when be announced Hovenanian batting place of Braggiotti. And the little fellow, who looks even smaller in a baseball suit than a hockey uniform, lest about two more feet when he ducked for one of Blanche's fast ones...
...thousands of fissures in the wrinkled western shore of Norway is the Stor Fjord, an S-shaped water that snakes through the wall-sided mountains for 35 mi. before it branches into two smaller fjords. One of these is the Nordals Fjord and 15 mi. farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord...
...believe that the much-needed social reforms might after all be adopted. But now the administration is backing down all along the line. A short while ago it was admitted that money is increasingly becoming concentrated in the hands of a few and that small incomes are becoming smaller. Unless Roosevelt takes a firm stand on the issues he enunciated during his campaign, not only he, but the administration itself must be accused of a breach of faith...
...continued to play with her costume. "Not long ago I happened to mention that each of my fans cost $400, and that, consequently, I had to be very careful of them. Inside of a week I received a lovely letter from a boy in Cambridge suggesting that I buy smaller fans since they would be far less expensive and I wouldn't have to worry about misplacing them. I think it was sweet of him, don't your. The reporter hastened to inform her that the young man had doubtlessly expressed the opinion of the whole college and had showed...