Word: greater
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Added to the indignity of insufficient credit, the American minister abroad sees hurled at him the insult of party domination and political interference. It has come about that nearly every overturn at Washington must be followed by the recall or resignation of the greater part of our Ambassadors. Statistics have been compiled showing that, with one exception, none of the diplomatic representatives from this country to important posts in Europe at the outbreak of the war had had the slightest diplomatic experience previous to their appointments. In sharp contrast to this state of affairs, the consuls and ministers from Great...
...Turkey has always been the plague spot of the world--in the last hundred years more germs of war and dissension have been bred in Turkey than anywhere else in the world. I know that other wars and greater wars are breeding in Turkey now and unless the United States takes hold immediately it will mean that we will once more have to throw our full armed forces into Europe to stop the conflicts that will certainly arise...
...each player one or more points in a set, and these points will be added to the points made by the player in the entire set. The points won in each game are added together and to this is added the allotted handicap. The player then having the greater number of points wins the set, regardless of the number of games won or lost...
...water polo, the University has only once opposed Yale but in that game she was successful. Yale has also come out ahead in the few dual wrestling meets that have been held, while in the Inter-collegiates in which both universities have competed Yale has every time amassed the greater score...
...novel proposition of the double-header in football was evolved at the University for two purposes: to satisfy the smaller colleges whom the University plays at the beginning of the season, and to enable her to play a greater number of men than under the old system. By this means the criticism which is aroused whenever the coaches play a large number of fresh men against a wornout opponent will be eliminated...