Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both students and officers agree that Bard ought to be larger, roughly double its size. Such expansion might solve both financial and faculty problems and would create a more varied yet more integrated student body...
...rose by 90,834-the largest gain in the church's history-to 1,684,415. An upsurge in U.S. church life was also noted by the 45 bishops of the Methodist Church in a statement issued at their annual meeting: "Our people are attending public worship in larger numbers than we have ever known. New churches are being enterprised in every area in America and overseas . . . Giving has reached an alltime high ... A new spirit has fallen upon our people...
Newby said that some fields, including engineering, chemistry, and banking will have many more openings this year than usual. In addition, approximately the same number of students have been taken into executive training programs by the larger companies...
...fierce border clashes which the U.N. and its armistice teams are powerless to prevent. Some in recent months have assumed the gory proportion of massacres-Kibya last October, when Jews killed 53 helpless Arabs, Scorpion Pass last March, when Arabs slew eleven helpless Jews. But those are only larger, remembered episodes in a situation that is worsening rapidly. Last week TIME correspondents concluded tours on opposite sides of the border between Israel and Jordan...
...poverty and the unemployed, one 13 volumes thick, the other, twelve. Scelba put the authors of these works on the job, one as Minister of Finance, the other as Minister of Labor. Upcoming as a result is a whole program of new legislation: a self-liquidating housing scheme larger than anything previously planned in postwar Italy; a vigorous new set of tax laws, which for the first time will provide jail sentences for such blatant tax dodgers as those who shocked all Italy during the unfolding of the Montesi scandal (TIME, March...