Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought his profits were $25,000. Bookie George Lederman took another $25,000. Bookie Milton Held got $35,000. A sharp-eyed hunchback named Oscar Gutter swore he had won $40,000 from Capone; Harry Belford, better known as "Hickory Slim, the Dice Guy," $25,000. Other bookmakers got smaller amounts. Altogether Snorkey's fondness for playing the Caponies seemed to have cost him some $200.000. Snorkey smirked, did not seem ashamed. One Bud Gentry breezed up on the stand, recalled that Prizefighters Sharkey & Stribling and Mrs. Tex Rickard had been Capone's guests in Florida, said that...
When Dr. Miller ended his speech he took off cap and gown, helped them on to Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel (pronounced Kuh-nave'-ul) of Chicago. By robing, Dr. Kanavel assumed the presidency of the College. He is a smaller man than retiring President Miller. The official sleeves hung over his wrists as he swung into an official flaying of social and industrial medicine not guided by responsible doctors...
...Committee, which this year supersedes the old Freshman Dormitory Committees, were disclosed yesterday by Robert Saltonstall, Jr.'33, chairman of the Student Council committee on Freshman affairs. The Union Committee is composed of one man from each of the larger halls and two others who are distributed among the smaller dormitories...
...meet is held annually for the smaller colleges and second university teams of the larger colleges and is open to university and freshman competitors who have not competed in the I. C. 4 A championships and who have not finished tenth or better in the New England or Maine championships...
...Freshmen are together in the Union, and the Houses provide common eating places for upper-classmen. Although until now the plan to foster French and German conversation has been only for Freshmen, there is no reason why it can not be instituted in some of the Houses, perhaps in smaller groups, but therefore to greater advantage...