Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...talk. Finally their grandmother stepped in to help the baffled cameramen, asked the children what they wanted for Christmas. Herbert III listed his desires: a policeman's uniform, badge and club, a wagon and a "train engine-a big one." Peggy Anne wanted "a very big doll," several smaller ones and a wagon. Their six-month-old sister Joan, who had arrived in Washington in the arms of Nursemaid Florence Gehlke (see cut) was not brought out of the White House to express her Christmas wants...
...while she used all her legal and oratorical talents explaining, declaiming, answering questions about her new job. "What about those big wine kegs?" one delegate was overheard to ask. "They're grape juice kegs," snapped back Fruit Industries' smart lawyer. "The company uses them in lieu of smaller containers still unavailable...
...confusion. The section men were generally well-grounded in their subject, but more interested in their own research than in the course, and took little pains to correlate their own knowledge and ideas with the material presented from the lecture platform or in the reading. It is conceivable that smaller sections would have enabled the individual students to get whatever problems bothered them from their reading or lectures straightened out satisfactorily...
...quite that, but that it is almost a matter of killing two birds with one stone. By way of explanation, it may be assumed that the majority of graduating students will, if they have not already done so, invest in some form of life insurance. A smaller majority also plan, in accordance with the precepts of duty and in preparation for a future junket, to contribute something toward the class fund...
...these holdings have slowly been shifted. Last week the following was reported: 1) Companies in which the Rockefeller interests are concentrating: Standard Oils of New Jersey, New York, California; and Vacuum Oil. 2) Companies in which the Rockefeller holdings are retained: Standard Oil of Ohio; Ohio Oil Co.; several smaller units. 3) Companies from which the Rockefeller interests have completely withdrawn: Standard Oils of Kentucky and Kansas; Atlantic Refining Co.; Prairie Oil & Gas; Prairie Pipe Line...