Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foil competition, the target is limited to the upper half of the front of the body; touches may be scored only with the point of the blade. Similarly, although the target in epee play is slightly bigger, only the point is used to score...
Gary Berger's fifteen-piece big band, which played first, showed how much it has improved. At last year's Quincy-Holmes jazz concert, the Berger band was hesitant and restrained. Now its voice no longer cracks, and its sound is bigger, smoother and surer. Also, the band has developed a group of soloists who can play in front of a big ensemble and still not sound thin and tremulous. Sam Saltostall's humorous trombone and the vigorous saxophones of Watanabe and Errol Burke provided some fine solo work...
...Tokyo's Hosei University, the shimmering beauty of live rainbow trout is something to stir the scientific imagination. It pained Kanayama to think that most of the rainbow infants raised in Japan's hatcheries are no sooner released in a river than they are gobbled up by bigger fish, including their own elders. He decided to send rainbow babies to survival school...
...sound last week sent shock waves across Britain and France, which had been confident of winning air supremacy with their Concorde supersonic transport. Lockheed's All, and the American technological breakthroughs it implies, makes it almost certain that the U.S. will produce a supersonic plane that will be bigger, faster and cheaper to operate than the Mach 2.2 Concorde...
...scientific" test after another was devised to prove the inferiority of colored races. First, phrenology, or the study of skulls, was the rage. Enthusiasts claimed that the bigger the brain cavity, the brighter the person. When Negroes and Chinese turned up with huge brains, racists took to measuring noses. The theory was that the lesser races have longer noses-until it was pointed out that Darwin himself had an exceptionally long nose...