Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will deny that some sports are more popular than others. A football game will always draw larger crowds than a fencing match. Yet from the player's point of view outside popularity is arbitrary. Baseball has declined considerably since the twenties, and though spectator appeal sustains basketball and hockey, track and crew depend upon tradition for their headlines and their "major" status. The H.A.A. has faithfully tried to reflect the student body's interest, as in 1938. It has never, however, elevated a sport primarily for the players. This de-emphasis of the individual player is evident in the present...
Healy thinks, however, that the larger organizations, such as the steelworkers, will be able to put pressure on the smaller unions and force them to merge...
Boston College led 37 to 33 at the end of the first half, but the edge would have been considerably larger if it weren't for a strong performance by sophomore forward Neil Muncaster. Muncaster had to leave the game because of an injured ankle before the end of the first half, but in the seven minutes he played he accounted for 13 points, hitting on five out of six field goal attempts...
...eyes of admissions committees, diversity of preparation is important," he said, since both types, the science major and the non-science major are needed. He attributed the larger percentage of science majors admitted to medical schools to the greater number of premeds majoring in science...
...drum will restore to the Band its former distinction of owning the largest playable bass drum in the world. The University of Florida last year bought a drum identical to the old Band instrument; now, of course, the new Harvard drum would be slightly larger...