Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gains some immediate benefits in return--such as the return of imprisoned U.S. flyers and a cease-fire in the Formosa Straits. Case-fire in itself would remove a sharp thorn from American relations with Britain and create a favorable climate for future negotiations on the larger stakes involved...
...Illinols Committee's survey found that "a significant number of placement officers ask information about race, religion, or national origin on their own forms. A small number," it continued, "supply this information to employers on a routine basis and a larger number only if requested...
Most of the tables in the dining hall are four-seaters. After a meal has been served for a half hour, however, you would never know it. Winthrop men have come and gone, pulling chairs from here and there, gathering in larger and larger groups. This informality extends to relation with tutors, for it is a race day indeed when two or more tutors are seen eating together...
...widened lane will mean that players on defense will have to stay out of a larger area around the basket to avoid losing the ball for a "three-second" violation...
...bridged by words never destined to bear the stress of reality. But Poland was immediate and concrete, already the subject of angry public debate. How the fate of Poland was settled at Yalta is a story that contains, in a small-scale model, all the elements of the larger story of how the West lost the peace...