Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble is, each stage must be enormously larger than the next stage. Rocket men argue endlessly about the details, but the more sensible ones believe that it would take a multi-stage rocket as big as an ocean liner to spit even a jeep-sized space ship free of the earth...
...Such larger bodies as Mars and Venus, both powerful gravitational whirlpools, should be approached with caution. But Mars and Venus both have atmospheres, which the space men plan to use as frictional buffers. Their ships would circle in the atmospheric fringes until they were moving slowly enough to land. An alternate plan: cruise warily around the planet and send small space-dinghies down to explore its surface...
...major literary works are no longer the prime concern. A market flooded with "cheap" literature is growing increasingly larger, and, quietly and efficiently, the Attorney General's office, local police forces and various civic and religious organizations are trying to do something about keeping it clean...
...fall of 1951, when one Alfred Vellucci was campaigning for a post on the Cambridge Schools Committee. The strong point in his drive for election was his announced morals crusade, in which he distributed a pamplet called "Arouse Ye Citizens," signing it "Al Vellucci, Father of Six." With a larger brood to guard than most, he was intimately concerned with obscene literature, and asked that cheap and immoral books be banned from stands where children could pick them...
...when the prospect of admitting a smaller number of seasoned Fellows is weighed against taking in larger numbers of greener ones, the benefits are not great enough to recommend this juggling as anything but a last resort...