Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portable, battery-operated TV receiver, tubeless except for the picture tube. With its 37 transistors, the entire set is little larger than a portable typewriter, uses less than 1/10 the power of a standard, table-model receiver...
...piano no larger than a child's pencil box. With only eight keys and two tiny batteries that should last for 5,000 hours, the piano broadcasts its electronic tones through any nearby radio...
...reports gathered from 1,800 educational institutions, McGrath said: "Although the increase is relatively slight, 1.5 percent above 1951, there is a decided upsurge in the number of students enrolling for the first time. Part of the rise in the number of college freshmen can be attributed to the larger number of high school graduates last June...
...highly "reducing": i.e., it contains large amounts of methane, ammonia, water vapor and similar compounds, but no free oxygen. The atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn are believed to be like this. As millions of years pass, the sun's light causes chemical reactions among the atmospheric gases. Larger molecules begin to form (e.g., aldehydes, amines, organic acids), and they rain down into the oceans below. There they react with one another and with dissolved salts. All possible chemical compounds are formed eventually, and the ocean becomes a rich solution of them...
Liberal Arts students now pay 73 percent of all college expenses, as tuition has become an increasingly larger source of income in the last 20 years. But in nation and increased enrollments have forced private colleges to keep raising tuition fees...