Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance of the bill, then, does not lie in any sudden gift of war-powers to the Executive, but in that it will enable the United States to cooperate more effectively with the League in the settlement of disputes between smaller nations. American under Stimson's leadership has been working towards a closer concurrence with that body, which thought somewhat discredited of late, will obtain a fairer test of its abilities if it can depend more confidently on President Roosevelt's support...
...Dean's List decrease this year. The Seniors jumped from 170 honor men a year ago to 239 this year. Expressed in percentage, this is an increase from 27.1 per cent to 39.1 per cent of the Class. This improvement is thought to be explained by the smaller number of courses required for a degree and by the more liberal policy of granting course reductions to Seniors who are candidates for honors...
...Smaller increases were shown by both the Sophomores and the Freshmen, but the Juniors dropped from 26.6 per cent to 24.1 per cent. The Sophomores increased from 19.1 per cent to 20.1 per cent and the Freshmen from 15.5 to 17.3 per cent. Out of a total of 3390 men, 791 attained Dean's List standing this year, but only 690 achieved this honor during the academic year...
...number and character of Freshmen to be admitted into each House. As a result of this agreement, a rough but proportionate cross section would for the first time be admitted to each Houses and those Houses particularly overdosed with private school or club men would receive a smaller number of them than the other Houses. This is of course, precisely the sort of action which should have taken place last year, and it is a sad commentary on the weak relations between the seven House Masters that they have to be forced into obviously desirable action by a desperate situation...
Evanston, Ill., famed for Charles Gales Dawes and Northwestern University, last week got into the nation's news as the battleground of an organization called the Paul Reveres. Founded four months ago in Glencoe, Ill., a smaller Chicago suburb seven miles north of Evanston, the Paul Reveres tub-thump against Communism and "subversive activities." Planning a nation-wide organization, they made a Colonel E. M. Hadley their president. In January, Evanston got its chapter, headed by one John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target...