Word: larger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wine production, if nothing else, was better than ever last year. In France and Spain, growing conditions were perfect, the grapes were larger, and the boys who mash the grapes had bigger feet. But the wine consumers have not risen to meet this new challenge, which, according, to U.N. statistics, involves a mere 636 million gallons of surplus wine. Ready for sale, this surplus wine would fill just slightly more than two-and-a-half billion bottles. This trifling amount of wine would be easy work for any but the present group of apathetic wine drinkers...
Evans characterized the program as an "act of self defense for New England stu- dents against Southern and Western schools which are freezing out scholars of the Northeastern region." The Board of Higher Education, he explained, would negotiate contracts with New England universities allowing for a larger number of local students to attend...
...patted the maple-colored instrument. Then he launched into pieces by such 18th century composers as Rameau, Domenico, Scarlatti and Bach. The music was brief, gracefully decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than they do a larger concert hall. Customers found the music relaxing and, after the strangeness of the first few notes had worn off, a good blend with bourbon or Scotch...
...French, who had never had a clearly defined will to victory in Indo-China, were seriously demoralized when the Americans, on a much more favorable battlefield, settled, down to a stalemate and then a truce in Korea. And around that Korean failure lay a still larger setting of weakness: the tendency of the non-Communist world to think of the cold war purely in terms of reaction to enemy action, to "repel aggression...
...will not seek a near but a distant objective and you will not be satisfied with what you have done. All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern which from his separate approach every true scholar is striving to descry...