Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the discussion at the meeting centered on the issue of dissatisfaction on the part of other member colleges with the NSA. Irving J. Stolberg, International Campus Administrator for NSA, stated that "I think Harvard has more prestige and a bigger name than most universities," but he added, "I don't think that a number of schools will follow Harvard's withdrawal...
...differences. The U.A.W. won G.M.'s pledge to narrow differentials in wages between workers doing the same job in different G.M. plants, which, the U.A.W. says, now range up to 27? an hour. G.M.'s top bargainer, Louis G. Seaton, beat down a U.A.W. demand for a bigger boost in short-week benefits than it got from Ford, i.e., maximum supplemental pay of $30 a week...
This is, of course, just one side of the argument. It can be effectively challenged by pointing to the insignificance of the athletic program alongside the much bigger tasks that confront modern educators--things like raising teachers' salaries and building new housing facilities...
...sensate" culture could only point to more violent struggles in the future. As a result, in 1937 he was able to discount the optimistic hopes of many of his colleagues for a lasting universal peace, and instead said mankind must look forward to an age of "bigger and better wars." Sorokin noted that since that time his most severe critics have been banished to the "ash can of history," and their "apple sauce-sweet theories" have gone with them...
...water droplets that capture one or more of them should grow warmer by absorbing sunlight, and should lose their moisture by evaporation to droplets that have stayed comparatively cool because they have captured no particles. Then the cool, fattened-up droplets should fall slowly through the cloud, growing gradually bigger by jostling small droplets and combining with them. Eventually they should grow big enough to fall from the cloud...