Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During Mr. Gibson's speech Comrade Litvinov, his moon face red with anger, tore into smaller & smaller bits a printed copy of the resolution...
...Philadelphia two pythons had lived in the same cage in lethargic harmony for four years. One was 20 ft. long; the other 18 ft. The 20-ft. python had eaten recently, and since pythons are seldom hungry keepers put a single 25-lb. pig in the cage for the smaller one. Next morning that python lay in a corner squeezed to death. His larger friend was coiled contentedly in the opposite corner. A bulge in his middle showed...
...children. Not until these thousands are grown and other thousands have taken their places is another epidemic likely to occur. New York City had a local epidemic in 1907 (2,000 cases). Its epidemic of 1916 (9,000 cases) spread to the Mississippi. Last year's epidemic was smaller (4,000 cases in New York City), less widespread. The next epidemic in the New York-New England area should not occur until 1941 or 1942, certainly not for five more years...
...west of Spain, and in Andalusia, south of Seville. Largest, fiercest, most cunning are the bulls of the sons of Don Eduardo Miura, whose ganadería is near Seville. Miura bulls kill many horses.* Few matadors like to fight Miuras; some will not. Many breeders have bred smaller bulls at the behest of cautious matadors, but if a bull is too small he is whistled out of the ring. For those who wish to judge bulls before they reach the ring two occasions are important: the feria (fair) at Seville in the spring and the July encierros at Pamplona...
...believe that we have reached the turning point in the Depression," said General Charles Gates Dawes last week in Chicago. Because he was fresh from the presidency of Reconstruction Finance Corp. his statements commanded attention. "It is the smaller business enterprises with low overhead expense which seem to be showing improvement," he said. "But in time the larger ones must necessarily follow. ... I would attribute much more importance to the increase in electric power consumption in the country during the last two weeks than to stock or bond quotations." Only factors tending to discredit this Dawesian cheer last week were...