Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be to turboprop planes, which use the jet blast to turn propellers. Since the armed forces are now paying for development of several turboprop transports, Smith said, "there should be available within a few years turboprop power plants suitable in size and power output for some of the larger, faster transports of tomorrow . . ." Pure jets, said Smith, will not be flown in big numbers until they get their operating costs far below the present levels...
Some interesting things show up in the course of the film. A studio set of a room, for instance, appears a lot larger than the same set in one of the old-fashioned movies. The new technique, in effect, reveals that movie sets are large than life size in order to facilitate camera movement. This becomes obvious when you see a shot of a person walking up a stairway that is probably ten feet wide...
Britons did not fool themselves about their new budget. When it came down to plain shillings and pence, the tax cuts were small; no Briton was going to need larger pockets. But the tax cuts were a well-timed tonic for the British spirit. A London lady read about them, calculated that they would save her ?70 this year, and promptly asked a painter to paint the front of her house...
...have to do with the pressure of course work. This delicate problems appears less pressing to the student than to the instructor who has tutored for some years. But, from the beginning, it has always been the most chronic of all the difficulties in conducting tutorial successfully in the larger fields. By permitting the student to count sophomore tutorial as a course, instead of asking him to add it to a four course program, it is hoped to avoid embarrassments of this sort...
Zorba the Greek resists easy definition. Like the Odyssey and Don Quixote, it is nearly plotless but never pointless. Like the heroes of those fictional sagas, its hero, Alexis Zorba, casts a larger shadow on the world than the world does...