Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lamps, five gravediggers. working before dawn in London's Highgate Cemetery, dug up the moldy, plain elmwood coffin of Karl Marx, father of Communism, whose remains had lain undisturbed for almost 62 years, ever since he died peacefully in his small London house. They reburied him in a larger Highgate lot, some 200 yards away. There, Britain's Marx Memorial Committee will erect a polished black granite monument (estimated cost: $14,-ooo) with a reverent inscription...
...more elaborate shielding. Samples to be tested can be purified by turning their carbon into a gas that leaves the fallout particles behind. Most of the laboratories are already planning to shift to the gaseous method, which has other advantages also. But if bigger bombs are tested in larger numbers, scientists may have to abandon their cherished system of Carbon 14 dating...
...original limitation was made in order to direct student donations to "smaller drives which are perhaps more of service or interest to students rather than to the larger well-known charities which have funds to solicit independently," he said...
RAMBLER, which American Motors announced would be the "basic volume car" for both Hudson and Nash this year, looks little different from last year's models except for a new wafflelike grille. Most of the changes are mechanical, including a more rigid body frame, larger front-wheel cutouts for easier turning, and a wider front suspension for greater road stability. Prices have been cut to make it "competitive" with the cheapest Fords, Chevrolets and Plymouths...
...plan is intended, the Carnegie announcement said, to enable "smaller colleges to benefit from the pioneering, imaginative programs in general education at the four larger universities...