Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similar collections have been made once before, as in 1915, as a war relief measure. At that time the slogan was "Give at least a dollar!" This num is smaller than the admissions to the planned charity games, yet large enough to form a fund that may be of use. Although the average undergraduate does not ordinarily feel obliged to contribute anything to charity, here is an opportunity in which he may help the current situation. Any method of relief, good though it may be, is useless unless the gesture is generous enough to fulfill the spirit in which...
With the 72nd Congress imminent, the nation's $600,000,000 deficit growing larger and tax collections smaller, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills and his corps are bestirring themselves to find new means of bringing more and badly-needed cash into the national till. Last week the White House let it be known that "a scheme for selective sales taxes is being considered officially." What this means is that President Hoover may propose to Congress a luxury tax. It also indicates that Treasury and President have decided that the extra billion dollars cannot be squeezed...
...anyone familiar with that system however, the element of complete autonomy for the smaller unit appears essential. If the Harvard and Yale houses are to be merely administrative units, not completely autonomous units, the results, though they may be important, will certainly not be Oxonian, since the very essence of Oxford is the autonomy of the college; and that autonomy is guarded with a jealous love which the outsider finds it hard to understand or to value at its true worth...
...Gordon-Watson of London, Dr. Hans von Haberer of Cologne (all three were made honorary fellows of the College) and the officers of the College. It was a happy evening for Dr. Squier. That afternoon the College had elected him its next president. He is just about as much smaller in height and build than President Kanavel, as President Kanavel is smaller than retired President Miller...
...particulars, including the name of the heroine (Helga, later Susan) inserted to account for her Swedish accent. But, even as Author Phillips' honest eagerness raised the book above its manner, so the inferior story of the cinema gains validity from the impersonations of Greta Garbo and, to a smaller degree, Clark Gable...