Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Washington's National Gallery are reproduced full-size on the following four pages. They have in common what art critics like to call "monumentality": when seen in reproduction, they are imagined to be much bigger than actuality; likewise, when seen in the eye of memory they look larger than their true size. Each merits the overworked word "gem," for each diffuses the sparkle of ages from a surface hardly more than a hand's span...
...spouts notions for vast, if often vague, future enterprises. The public will not accept culture in large doses, Weaver believes, but through his spectaculars and other major NBC shows, he thinks that small injections of ballet, music and other serious arts have been paving the way for larger and larger doses. "This is integration of great cultural entertainment that at this point the general public does not like. By integrating it into lighter forms, we think we've been able to create an audience for it ... If Sol Hurok did an evening of unforgettable music, it would...
Murphy said, "There is usually a larger vote in the House elections than there is in the class-wide elections as the voter generally known most of the men running in his House elections, while he may know none at all in the Class elections, and will not bother to vote. The turnout for this election was as good as we expected...
...present tendency toward larger families continues as predicted, 48 million children will be of school age (5 to 17) by 1965, one-third more than this year's total. Merely to provide them with 1954-style facilities will boost annual school expenses from around $10 billion to at least $13.5 billion...
...larger public institutions offer increasingly dilute, impersonal education, private colleges will become all the more desirable, and multiple applications could soar frighteningly...