Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing primarily a defensive game because of injuries to regular team members, Harvard never really seized the initiative as it had in previous outings. It allowed the bigger Andover team to score with only one minute gone in the first period, but finally hit twice to take the lead by the end of the frame. Forwards Ford Fraker and Dan DeMichele scored for the Crimson...
Harvard had trouble getting points, as usual, but the big problem was personnel. Man for man Columbia is bigger, faster, and better...
...sure, Toll probably has a bigger problem than most campus presidents. At a hearing of the committee-convened in the wake of the predawn arrest at Stony Brook last month of 38 people who were charged with sale or possession of drugs-he admitted that perhaps 20% of his 5,200 students have used drugs, mostly marijuana. Toll assured the committee that "we cannot tolerate illegal activities," warned that students involved in the arrests can expect expulsion...
...Rolls-Royce. On its 117-in. wheel base, the car mounts an eight-cylinder, 460-cu.-in. engine specially designed to provide improved combustion and cut exhaust fumes. Other features, including interior warning lights, air conditioners and radios, have been adapted from either the smaller Thunderbird or the bigger Lincoln...
Vigorous Battle. Though British banks long prided themselves on being among the world leaders in both size and prestige, the crown has slipped. The U.S. now has six banks bigger than any in the U.K.; the Bank of America, with $19 billion of deposits, is well over twice the size of Britain's largest. Most big U.S. banks have London branches that battle vigorously with British banks for time deposits. On top of that, British banks have come under pressure to match the growth-by-merger of their corporate customers-or lose accounts...