Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear to me. To my mind, if this spot that you're trying to defend is so important that you are going to send troops and become involved in the thing, you've given hostage to fate, because on what day does this thing become bigger and bigger...
...maturity. Donaldson selected spawn from the best of the 48, nursed the hatchlings into fingerlings and launched them into the sea. The fast-growing trait proved permanent; in 1958 a startling proportion of the class of '55 returned full grown to the hatchery. They were as big or bigger than ordinary chinooks, and their quick growth had saved them from a full year of ocean hazards. Only about 0.1% of ordinary chinook fingerlings survive to return to their birthplace. In Donaldson's class of '53, 3.25% eventually came home...
...full of Italian marble, East Indian rosewood and cut-glass German chandeliers. The auditorium is steeply pitched to provide an unimpeded sight line, and the orchestra pit is recessed under the stage so the mouths of tubas cannot eclipse the legs of the chorines. Despite its huge capacity-bigger than any house on Broadway-no seat is more than 92 ft. from the stage. Designed by Chicago Architects Rapp & Rapp, the Fisher also has a giant aluminum acoustical screen that drops from the balcony ceiling, reducing its capacity by 402 seats in order to improve the conditions for intimate drama...
Back at Harvard, Teacher Bruner got fascinated with the thought processes of children; in one study, for example, he learned that high-value coins look bigger to poor children than to rich children. He plunged into work with emotionally retarded learners, found that their major block was a fear of losing attention if they made any real progress in learning. Bruner got results by ridding them of reliance on external rewards or punishments. Working with normal children, he soon decided that learning is best achieved by freeing the human instinct to synthesize-in sum, by stressing the "act of discovery...
...Piaget, top scholar on the subject, the toddler is an egocentric who understands things only in terms of what he does about them ("A hole is to dig"). A five-year-old cannot grasp the principle of the conservation of quantity; he thinks that a piece of clay becomes "bigger" when it is flattened. The idea of transitivity eludes seven-year-olds, who cannot understand the statement: "A is bigger than B, and B is bigger than C, means that A is bigger than...