Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board plans to make the expenses as small as possible this year. A smaller number of artistic pictures will be run because of the expense of the plates. In their place cuts and drawings made by the art board will be substituted as the cost of printing these is much less expensive. The arrangement of the individual pictures of the class may be changed to permit a larger number of men on each page, thus conserving space...
From Sydney went Vice-Admiral Hyde of Australia which has bought and paid for such fine new war boats as the 10,000-ton cruisers Canbeera (Flagship) and Australia, possesses also the older and smaller cruisers Adelaide and Brisbane, the seaplane carrier Albatross and five destroyers...
...news-nosing son "Neely" tried to crash the ex-Kaiser's presence last spring, he was repulsed with the stiff story that he had not been Gazetted two weeks in advance. But life at Doom is terribly sleepy. In the ivied main palace and the outlying smaller palace for smaller princes, the family retires early, lies abed until noon, reading, smoking, dozing. Sometimes they listen irritably to the clop, clop of Wilhelm's ax, making Doom's big daily news. Lately rheumatism has kept Wilhelm abed too, denied him the chief pleasure he gets as Germany...
...order to reach this ultimate it is felt that it would be necessary to combine many of the smaller scholarships to provide a greater number of large fellowships, particularly in the College. Further in this direction would be a plan whereby "a considerable fraction" of the scholarships would be awarded for more than one year. "In the College, for example, some might be given for three years at the end of the first year and some for two at the completion of the Sophomore year...
Something can be accomplished by a re-grouping of our present scholarship funds, it would be well to combine some of our smaller scholarships and thus provide a greater number of large fellowships. This is particularly true in the College. It would also be very desirable to have a considerable fraction of the scholarships awarded for more than one year. In the College, for example, some might be given for three years at the end of the first year and some for two at the completion of the Sophomore year. Certain safeguards would have to be provided, of course...