Word: grander
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...Foundation clearly comes close. Were the foundation nothing more than what a New Yorker wag called it-"a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some"-it would wield power enough. But it has used its money to tackle problems-and try solutions-on a scale grander than private philanthropy has ever known. It has more than a third ($2.7 billion) of all the foundation money in the U.S. It spends at the rate of $100 million a year, has brewed up such a wide assortment of projects that it is practically impossible to say where...
Perhaps now that the U.N. has shown how ineffectual it really is in a crisis, people will stop thinking of it in terms of a Congress or a Parliament on a grander scale. As a means of exchanging ideas and ideals, it is a fine organization, but it would be far better if it were physically located in the Soviet Union, where a free exchange of this type would be a novel experience for the population. As an arbiter in maintaining law and order, the U.N. is a howling bust. Moral indignation has saved few people from a firing squad...
...summer is a time of hard-boiled stocktaking, half-baked promises and raw replacements. Last week there were fewer replacements, grander promises -and an unexpected twist to the season's stocktaking...
...Aristotle, later expanded into book form. Crescus, a 15th century Jewish philosopher, led him to Spinoza, first to a series of articles in the Chronicum Spinozarum and then to a two-volume work on Spinoza that was published in 1934. Already, however, he had begun to conceive of a grander project, a series of books on the "Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza," of which a revised edition of his Spinoza work would from the terminal point. Working "backwards and sideways," he next published a two-volume work on Philo (in 1947), which are the second...
Yoshida had grander ideas: something like $400 million in "investment help" to rebuild the island empire's economy and thereby renew her moldering industry...