Word: bigger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Showing up in Edwardian splendor, the moustached Souvanna Phouma sported a pearl stickpin, Homburg, and carved Laotian walking stick. He received a hug and kiss from Half Brother Souphanouvong, himself resplendent in a most unproletarian two-button suit with a bigger pearl stickpin. Paunchy Soldier Phoumi thought it more appropriate to wear combat fatigues. The trio conferred for an hour, broke for box lunches and Scotch airlifted in from Vientiane...
...annual meeting of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, they spent much of their time discussing something that is far too big ever to be implanted as an internal organ: the artificial kidney. And the biggest news about it was a plan to make it still bigger, so that a machine that is now about the size of a home washing machine will take on the dimensions of a laundry. It will also, its developers hope, wash out the metabolic poisons from the blood of as many as 15 kidney-disease victims at once...
...work on a fastback Corvair for introduction this month, later decided against the crash approach, and now maintains a monolithic silence. Its Chevrolet Corvette is too expensive to compete with the Mustang, and its rear-engined, lightly powered Monza might be thrown off balance by the weight of a bigger motor out back; this also applies to the experimental Monza GT. Result: G.M.'s competitor for the Mustang, Detroit believes, may be built around the front-engined Chevy II. Ready to take full advantage of his lead, Lee Iacocca at first projected 200,000 sales for the Mustang...
...National and Jones & Laughlin-as well as Wheeling Steel and National's Great Lakes Steel sub sidiary. Conspicuously not charged were Inland Steel and Kaiser Steel, two major producers that are generally shut out of the industry's Establishment because they often buck the prices set by bigger companies-as they...
With the miniaturization of modules, computer units that once filled a room now fit into cabinets no bigger than a water cooler. This saves materials and floor space, but a much more important advantage is increased speed of operation. When a computer is working, a blizzard of brief electric pulses swirls through its innards. The transistors and other components react almost instantly, but the pulses cannot travel between them faster than the speed of light, which is about ten inches in one billionth of a second. If they must cover any considerable distance, they slow the computer down. System/360...