Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most exciting experience of my career (I am not yet an old man) was when one of the smaller London booksellers walked into my London shop. He offered me a four volume folio edition of Bacon. "It ought to be worth *5, gov'nor," he said, "but some fool has scrawled all over the margins; so if you want it as it stands, you can have it for twenty-five shillings." The "fool" was Dr. Samuel Johnson; he had "scrawled" some five thousand times, using these volumes as the backbone of his famous dictionary. A dollar per scrawl...
...three engine-makers-Baldwin's dewlapped Samuel Matthews Vauclain, American's songwriting, politically prominent William Hartman Woodin (see p. 9) and smaller Lima Locomotive's Joel Stanley Coffin-saw the danger signals ahead in 1928. Each company sought other ways to make money. They went into Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down...
...remaining 110 men, representing 9.5 per cent of the total, were admitted to Harvard without examinations from schools in the far South and far West and from a few nearby schools in smaller centers. To be admitted without examination, these candidates must stand among the highest seventh of the boys in their class in school and be prepared in the subjects used in the New Plan examinations...
...reported for the first meeting of Varsity candidates are reporting for practice today. It is expected that before a few days are over, Coach Stubbs will make a cut in the squad and start a more intensive practice for a smaller group...
...House Plan has given to this ordered and intensified course of academic advancement the physical forces arising from the breaking up of unwieldy class groups into smaller units. This change, which President Lowell fostered and finally guided to maturity, has but begun to have its far reaching effect. in his report of 1929-30 President Lowell spoke as follows of the student and his goal in the House community: "He must perceive that mere absorption from his instructors counts for little; that to learn-and for that matter to graduate-is an active, not a passive verb," Here...