Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Religion is gaining ground-morality is losing ground," said Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary at an interdenominational seminar. "This is one of the most surprising and overlooked facts in America today . . . Churches possess a larger and wider allegiance . . . than ever before," but crime, alcoholism, divorce and sexual laxity are on the alarming increase. "Either there will be a moral renewal or [religion's gains] will fritter out into futility...
...officials explained that only non-strategic materials would go to the Russians. Items like fishing trawlers, and industrial and railroad equipment were listed to show that the exchange would not help the Soviet war effort. But importance of these goods for war production seems beyond dispute. And in a larger sense, the "non-strategic trade" idea itself is just a convenient fiction. Every fishing trawler Britons make for Russia releases Communist manpower for other, deadlier tasks. And on the other side of the coin, every product the West denies Russia means an added strain on the Soviet economy. The past...
Scholarships will be larger than in past years, but will be granted to fewer students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences next year in order not to "strangle" the small scholarship holder, Dean Francis M. Rogers announced yesterday...
...Committee on Scholarships first advanced larger individual scholarships five years ago and has been slowly increasing the size and decreasing the number since then. This year, however, marks the committee's first attempt to speed up its program...
...TAXATION: Hawaii consistently pays into the United States Treasury a larger amount than the federal government has spent for the territory, not including civil defense. Yet Hawaii has no vote in the Congress levying the taxes. This is taxation without representation. . . . We are asking for the right of active representation in Congress, which as a territory we are not granted...