Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salonika, regional headquarters for northern Greece, an official threw up his hands at the prospect that the stream of repatriates might steadily grow larger...
...zoos. Breland believes that zoo animals should be trained to perform instinctive acts when given a triggering signal. In a Breland-type zoo, the spectator could put a nickel in a slot if he wanted to see the monkeys dance or the hippo plunge into his pool. For a larger coin, a quarter perhaps, he might see a lion charge out of a thicket and leap with hideous roars on a simulated gazelle...
...Republicans did cut taxes in 1954; they did it in accordance with their filter-down theory of prosperity, slashing the taxes of corporation stockholders, and allowing larger write-offs for industrial depreciation. Without upsetting the economy, Senate Democrats could justifiably attack these top-heavy benefits, and substitute for them tax relief measures that would help poorer taxpayers...
Today, the President points out, only 15 percent of the national medical bill is paid by voluntary health insurance, and only three percent of the population has the protection of full coverage. President Eisenhower would like to see health insurancies pay a larger part of the health bill, and he urges that all citizens purchase some insurance immediately. Insurance companies would reject no-one as a "poor risk" under the Administration medical bill. Fiscal hocus-pocus called "reinsurance" will enable them to sell policies even to the victims of cancer, diabetes, and polio-at stupendous rates, of course, because...
Although most boxing coaches would be more than satisfied with a boxing turnout as large as Lamar's, he would like to see his classes grow still larger, fundamental part of every boy's training...