Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minor official got the Department of Agriculture into the news by ruling that holes in Grade A Swiss cheese may now be only ½in. in diameter instead of 9/10 in. (so that cheesemakers won't have to keep cheese in storage so long in order to get larger holes...
...publication resulting from the merger was slightly larger than the old CRIMSON and usually four pages. The left hand column of the front page was devoted to advertising. The rest of the front page was given over to regular news and sports items, all arranged under identical one-column headlines which read "Football Today at 3," "Results of Class Elections," and so forth...
...same, London considers itself the largest university in the Commonwealth, larger than Oxford and Cambridge combined. When the autumn term began, its enrollment included one-fourth (18,-283) of all England's full-time university students. And the University of London is still expanding to absorb more of Britain's new generation of students. In Bloomsbury, the last daubs of paint are being slapped on Birkbeck College (for evening classes), and nearby the steel girders for a new student union are already in place. "We have it in our power," says Principal Douglas W. Logan, "to create...
...Revolution is a solid chunk of scholarship, likely to endure as a classical work on its subject. What keeps it from being a great book is Author Ward's self-imposed narrowness of perspective. Had he occasionally fitted the military events into the larger political story, and shown the dependence of battles in Virginia on diplomacy in Paris, his book would have been greatly improved. And he could thereby have suggested that all the marches and musketry added up to the one revolution in modern history which ended not in tyranny but freedom...
...freshman squad is putting too much faith in comparative scores, "B.C. outplayed Malden by a much larger margin than we did," Huntington reported after watching the B.C. Malden game...