Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beating Williams on its home field is a tall order, and it isn't, a loss to the Ephmen that makes the situation critical. Williams, just like Amherst, considers a win over bigger Harvard a major feather in its cap; whereas the Crimson players, no matter how desirous of proving themselves they may be, cannot look on this as a "big game," with the Ivy opener two days...
Lindsay's next three-and-a-half years will see these forces converging. Charisma and promises are the glories of a new mayor. So far, Lindsay's idealism has been both his major source of energy and his biggest curse. His commissioners also have big ideas, but bigger, tradition-bound bureaucracies. Results will be the final measuring rod, and a year or two from now the mayor will need more than that sign in his office that reminds him to SMILE
...necessary approach to the problem, disagree with the black nationalist version. On the one hand, there are those who would rather see assimilation than separation. As one young administrator at Westminister said, "Sure I buy black dignity and black power. But there's a world out there much bigger than Watts--and I've never been called...
...year-old Webster's Third New Interna tional Dictionary, which sells for $47.50, the 13-volume Oxford English Dictionary, which was last updated in 1933 and costs $300, and the $47.50 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, mainly unchanged since 1913. Random House has a bigger, cleaner type face, includes names of notable places and people in its regular alphabetical word list, throws in such usable extras as a 64-page world atlas and a list of major dates. Most alluring of its extras are concise two-way subdictionaries of all commonplace words in Spanish, French...
...airlines use. Woolman took the advent of newer, faster, larger airplanes in stride. "I remember when I thought the DC-3 was the biggest plane I'd ever see," he would say. "They all look like whales when you first see them, but you soon get used to bigger and bigger ones...