Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with one of your reporters, that many economists have apparently come to consider monopolistic business as much less widespread and important in the American economy than they had formerly believed. I suggested that this change of attitude was traceable in part to recent empirical studies, but probably in much larger part to the impact of Schumpeter's thesis of "creative destruction." I hastened to dissociate myself, however, from the followers of Schumpeter. as I also did in a paper delivered at the meetings...
...times last year's tiny trickle of U.S. exports to the Soviet, bloc. In addition, Andreas indicated that the Russians might eventually take 150 million lbs. of each commodity. That is more than half the Agriculture Department's hoard of butter and almost a sixth of its larger store of cottonseed oil, both of which Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson would love to unload...
...today as a concrete and practical solution to one of the University's longest-standing bugaboos--the problem of making its vast collection of books more readily accesible to students. With the influx of veterans following World War II, this problem became appallingly clear: although the University has a larger number of books than any other organization in the country except the Library of Congress, it was harder for the student to get his hands on an assigned text than at many smaller and less well-equipped colleges...
...Brookhaven-Christofilos system will allow the ring of magnets to be much slimmer, only 3 ft. in cross section. The ring can be made larger in diameter without using too much material. Though it will produce protons with ten times as much energy as those from the cosmotron, it will need only 500 tons more steel...
Windowed Nook. Curator Rousseau, who believes that "a museum should be essentially a theater where a visitor can find delight and entertainment," had done everything possible to make the galleries a refreshing place in which to wander and look. In the larger galleries, unobtrusive labels over each painting gave the name of the artist, so that it was no longer necessary to squint closely at a picture to see who did it. Conveniently placed in the chronological order of the galleries was a windowed nook. There gallerygoers may rest on comfortable couches, smoke and contemplate either Central Park...