Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful tendency ... to seek after total or at least disproportionate military protection and to ignore the certainty that total military protection is unattainable. Indeed, the attempt to achieve it ... would demand a state of ... regimentation. There is also the ever-present struggle ... of service partisans for a larger proportion of the defense dollar ... These attitudes, among others, find expression in the current effort to pile dollars upon unexpended dollars in Air Force appropriations. Actually, the major portion of the Air Force reduction is simply application of rationality to requests for new appropriations so that previous over-funding of Air Force...
...problem is not only one of actual censorship. The shadow of fear cast by these pressures leads, we suspect, to an even larger voluntary curtailment of expression by those who seek to avoid controversy. Such pressure toward conformity is perhaps natural to a time of uneasy change and pervading fear . . . And yet, suppression is never more dangerous than in such a time . . . Freedom has given the U.S. the elasticity to endure strain. Freedom keeps open the path of novel and creative solutions, and enables change to come by choice. Every silencing of a heresy . . . diminishes the toughness and resilience...
...than last year; it is the used-car glut. Prices are dropping, and finance companies are refusing loans on all but the cleanest, late-model trade-ins. Dealers who refuse to take their losses in order to move used cars now will probably be stuck with full lots and larger losses later...
...work is also enlarging botanical knowledge. For example, he discovered that plant roots do not alter the direction of their growth to reach moisture or fertilizer, but that roots which do reach them grow faster and larger. But Ott does not take contracts from everyone. He turned down a movie to promote a popular soil conditioner. Reason: his films showed that plants grew better and faster without the conditioner than with...
...circulation since the war. Says he: "There are more pleasure boats in the water than ever before. Once a yachtsman was a rich man who owned a big yacht with a paid crew. All that is changed now. A yachtsman today is anybody that owns a pleasure boat larger than a rowboat. The small yachtsman is the backbone of yachting...