Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge of the post-Minnesota vacuum, one Democrat loomed larger than ever before. He is New York's Governor Averell Harriman, the New Dealing multimillionaire with wide experience in the Federal Government and an important victory at the polls (in 1954, over Senator Irving Ives). As a fast-moving, "inactive" candidate, Harriman has been the subject of complimentary remarks by former President Harry Truman and the beneficiary of considerable spadework by Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio...
...protect Canada's struggling magazines. Actually, the Canadian magazines are doing better than ever; their circulation is up 51% in the past decade, their gross advertising revenue up 165%. In a brief to the government only two weeks ago, Canada's Periodical Press Association forecast: "Much larger circulations for Canadian periodicals; more Canadian publishers and new publications in all fields; bigger individual issues...
...When the pilot jumps, his hunched body slows down quickly. When his speed is subsonic (and the pilot is probably unconscious), the chute is designed to open gradually, distributing the shock over a longer interval than the standard parachute. Moreover, a special harness spreads the deceleration forces over a larger area of the pilot's body. If he is able to survive the hammer-like initial blow of the supersonic air, he is figured to have a good chance of getting to earth alive...
...these affairs are Hoadley's babies. Though Leverett has what is considered the strongest senior faculty staff among the Houses, it is so good that the University is constantly distracting it with committee duty elsewhere, and Hoadley has had to carry a larger burden that most Masters. He has succeeded, however, and for that reason he typifies the House...
Actually, attempts to disobey a law in support of some larger cause are not at all unknown in American history. The Underground Railroad before the Civil War was clearly designed to side-track the Fugitive Slave Law and speed escaping slaves to Canada. Suffragettes, too, were willing to break ordinance after ordinance to extend the vote...