Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernest Hemingway in The Green Hills of Africa The only other animal known to man as a self-devourer is the Communist Party, which, from time to time, may be observed consuming its own entrails. Last week in East Germany, the hyena jaws were relishing a larger mouthful than usual: Franz Dahlem, No. 3 German Communist. Lorraine-born Comrade Dahlem, a Communist delegate to the German Reichstag from 1928 to 1932, was an International Brigade commissar in the Spanish Civil War. Interned by the French in 1939, he was turned over to the Gestapo three years later by the Vichy...
Matter of Pride. Among the larger cities on the itinerary were New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver. But the Boston also carried its flag into such towns as El Paso, Texas, Santa Barbara, Fresno, and Sacramento, Calif., and Provo, Utah. Wherever it went, the Boston offered only one standard: the same kind of solid musical fare it plays at home, with generous servings of Brahms, Berlioz, Stravinsky and Honegger...
Many scientists think that life appeared on earth when the atmosphere, instead of being its present mixture of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, contained methena, ammonia and hydrogen. These ingredients, still to be found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, slowly combined into larger and larger organic (carbon-containing) molecules, according to the hypothesis. At last one molecule, a complex protein, showed the ability to absorb other molecules and create replicas of itself out of their material. This "Adam molecule" was the first life; it could grow and reproduce itself...
...write about music in a scholarly, accurate, knowledgeable manner. After them conies a handful which write brightly and amusingly about music. They know little about it, are clever in avoiding the use of technical terms-and might just as well be reporting cattle shows. The third group is much larger. Its members are quite hopeless-drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing dropsical drips. All English critics, without exception, are timid and conventional...
...Erwin Rommel, the lives of his men and of himself were secondary to the larger matter of military objectives. So, naturally, were the lives of enemies. Rommel tells in his own words of coming upon a "particularly irate" French lieutenant colonel whose car was "jammed in the press" of surrendering French in 1940: "I asked him for his rank and appointment. His eyes glowed hate and impotent fury ... I decided, on second thought, to take him along . . . But he curtly refused to come with us, so, after summoning him three times to get in, there was nothing...