Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State has a legal right to withhold the details of his decision, but Vincent's case has larger implications than a run-of-the-mill dismissal. Many mistakes are made in policy making, but top-ranking career officers are seldom fired because of this. The combination of accusations of disloyalty and firing for lack of confidence suggests that Vincent's loyalty is in question...
...larger resident student group is wanted by officials and undergraduates, but the College as yet has not been able to get another building...
Mechanical Falcons. Larger guns for use against high-flying bombers may eventually be equipped with the same sort of automatic control, but some antiaircraft experts believe that bombers flying eight miles up cannot be shot down dependably by any sort of gun. The shells take a long time to reach such heights. They may be deflected from their courses by unknown winds, or the target may turn...
...lens that concentrates heat and light in a spot on the retina. As distances increase, the spot grows smaller but remains as bright. At four miles away, a nuclear fireball 90 feet across forms a brilliant spot on the retina 1/300th of an inch in diameter. This is larger than the fovea centralis, the part of the retina that is used in accurate vision...
After work, Komar eats in a drab restaurant, chats with the waitress, and goes home to the rooming house in which he has lived for ten years. Sometimes his landlady invites him down for an evening of bridge, and tuna-fish sandwiches. "He was aware of the larger possibilities of life, the beautiful, excruciating entanglements that other people got into, and survived, but these required an enormous effort, and in his observation were rarely worth it; he liked better the passing warmth that asked nothing of him beyond the moment's courtesy or interest...