Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Concluding a discussion of unruly pupils, the board decreed that henceforth they shall be whipped with straps of a standard size. For pupils in Grade 6 or higher the strap shall be 16 to 19 in. long, 2 to 2½ in. wide, ⅛ to ¼ in. thick. For smaller bottoms, smaller straps...
...enable the students to work under the greatest living authorities. To create a student body which will justify the Faculty, the present plan of large scholarships will be extended until there are about one hundred Conant scholars in each entering class. It is also recommended that several of the smaller graduate awards be combined to create similar fellowships in the Graduate School...
...being exhibited for sale at the Old Manchu Arsenal, and that there were no such persons as Romulus & Remus, Auctioneers. Editor Woodhead was merely trying in his own resourceful way to stir up as much Chinese rumpus as possible and prevent some Italians from disposing secretly of a much smaller quantity of smuggled arms. Straightforward editorials in his best British vein had failed to get results. Therefore Editor Woodhead touched off his fake advertisement with volcanic results, as droves of Chinese police rushed about looking for "Lo Mi Su" and "Li Mu Su," the ideographs into which their superiors...
...South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece, eat about 150 lb. of fresh fish a day. Goliath, not a circus sea elephant him self, bore a great circus name. Goliath I and II were famed troupers for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey...
Still more enlightening were the visits, made individually or in smaller groups, into the homes of several of the hosts and the chats with young French people upon common problems. At tea and at dinner the American representatives found their new friends as anxious as themselves for concord and amicable relations...