Word: greater
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First, Second and Third Marshal. Of the three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast for First Marshal shall be First Marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total vote for First and Second Marshal is the greater, shall be Second Marshal, the other candidate being Third Marshal. Any ballot not containing three names for Marshals will be thrown...
...book "The National and Private Alabama Claims and Their Final and Amicable Settlement," the material of which he gathered from Charles Sumner. President Grant the following year appointed him solicitor for the United States before the Geneva Arbitration Tribunal. Last April, Governor Roosevelt appointed him a member of the Greater New York Charter Revision Committee...
...candidates for Marshals, indicating his preference for First, Second and Third Marshal. Of the three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast for First Marshal shall be First Marshal; of the other two elected, that one whose total vote for First and Second Marshal is the greater, shall be Second Marshal; the other candidate being Third Marshal...
...have to answer two important questions. First, how far can Christ be spoken of as prescribing socialistic methods? To this we answer that his care for meekness and for poverty was much greater than we have yet attained, but that he never wished his followers to be revolutionists. Second, how far are his words to be taken literally? To this we reply that they must be applied according to our advancing knowledge and with the use of our common sense...
Professor C.H. Toy, spoke of Dr. Everett's work on the editorial staff of the "New World." His business ability, which is somewhat lost sight of among the greater traits of his character, was shown in the clearest light in his work for the financial success of the magazine. His editorial writing was brilliant and of lasting value, and in his articles he presented the gist of the religious thought of the times...