Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Someone ought to send a box of puppy biscuits to a couple of Architectural students who pulled the Crime-of-the-week a few days ago. They went out the evening before to drown out thoughts of gals and gables, and coming back to their boarding house in the smaller hours of the morning, they decided they wanted something to eat. In the house ice-box they found a large bunk of juicy hamburg steak. Here was a real find! They cooked it gleefully and ate it with relish. It was delicious...
Amateur football may be all right for the smaller schools, but not for really great institutions like Pitt," claimed one of 3,500 students who staged a two-hour walk-out to protest the resignation of Jock Sutherland...
...during which much justifiable criticism has been levelled at the inadequacy of its facilities, Sheltered from the blast because of the greater importance of its medical elder brother, the Harvard Dental Clinic has escaped much of the criticism; but actually the need for better dental facilities--while on a smaller scale--is even more urgent...
...silk-weaving city whose retail stores serve about 300,000 persons. Deprived of their No. 1 advertising medium, the five biggest Wilkes-Barre stores have distributed a weekly "Shoppers Bulletin" to 73,000 homes. (Total circulation of the dormant evening News, Times-Leader and morning Record: 73,000.) Smaller stores have combined to publish a 24-page tabloid "Buyers Guide" with about 53.000 circulation, which also takes paid classified ads. By agreement, no local merchant is advertising in Scranton and other out-of-town newspapers sold in Wilkes-Barre. One store has tried radio bingo and quizzes to bring...
...Delius spent much of his youth on a Florida orange plantation, remembered the singing of Florida Negroes, later based one of his finest tone poems, Appalachia, on these memories. The four-year-old Delius Society's best album to date contains Appalachian first recording, plus a sheaf of smaller items...