Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corrected by building up strength west of the Iron Curtain. But as progress toward this goal continues, it is increasingly clear that Britain will want to stop when the point of European balance is reached; the U.S. will want a Europe overbalanced against Russia. The U.S., measuring on a larger scale, foresees that a merely balanced Europe would free world Communism for further aggression in the Far East...
...prowlings of Sherlock Holmes's Professor Moriarty,† Stevenson's Suicide Club and Mrs. Lowndes's Lodger, now veil an even grimmer killer: the estimated three tons of soot and ash that sift daily out of the sky over each square mile of Britain's larger cities. In one smog-bound week last December, 4,000 Londoners died from trying to breathe the noxious combination of smoke and fog that choked their city...
...forced to cut its usual 5% stock dividend in half., because the New York Stock Exchange refused to permit it to declare cash and stock dividends larger than its earnings. The company earned $7.53 a share in the first nine months of this year, and a 5% stock dividend would have lifted the value of total dividend pay ments to $15. I.B.M. stock dropped eleven points to 230 on the exchange...
Truck Muffler. A muffler designed to cut down truck exhaust noises was brought out by GMC Truck & Coach Division. The new mufflers are larger, use heavier metal and larger exhaust pipes and have a reverse-flow system. They will be standard equipment on new GMC trucks...
...flatness of the characters, however, is really only one expression of the larger fault of the book. Dulling the whole effect of Love Is a Bridge is a degree of maturity in the author which is almost distressing to find in a first novel. The mellowness with which Mr. Flood tells his story, with absence of any intensity in episode or character, does not transmit the feeling inherent in the novel's conception. He describes even the most chilling events of his story--Henry's breakdown, the ruin of his first marriage, the dry-rot of his second--with...