Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drift in soon. Arrow discreetly pointed toward a white-hulled yacht with a New Zealand flag flying from the stern, and suggested that the Miru hadn't broken up yet. Somewhat downcast, the native called his fellows back. Later the island meterologist informed Davis that several ships, some larger than the Miru had been lost in the hurricane--the worst in 30 years. Hungry, but ignorant of the Rapa language, Arrow and Donovan indicated later that day their desire for fish-spearing equipment to the on-looking natives by a series of spearing motions. The natives nodded sagely and returned...
...pressing problem. In Bosnia and Montenegro, the peasants are reluctant to make the long and costly trek to the cities; and those who are attracted by new industrial centers often return home because the factories tend to expand too quickly while raw material sources remain meagre or distant. The larger deposits of coal and iron in Serbia and Slovenia, however, have made a speedier development of heavy industry there possible...
...deck facing the islands we couldn't see. Everyone waited tensely as the loudspeaker announced the minutes, then seconds, four, three, two, one. Then, right on the nose, through glasses so dark absolutely nothing could be seen, appeared a huge orange ball, materializing out of nothing, which grew larger and brighter until it appeared as if no dark glasses were there at all. An intense heat struck us almost immediately and the ball of fire started to rise and slowly lose its intensity. We took off our glasses and saw water vapor suddenly form around the column...
Bonn officials, anxious to convince the Allies that Germany cannot afford to shoulder a larger proportion of the West's planned defense budget, make much of the workers' poverty. Reporting last week to OEEC, they carefully explained that the Federal Republic is burdened with 1) 10,000,000 Soviet-zone refugees; 2) three occupation armies; 3) an $822 million reparations debt to the Jews; 4) an annual expense of $150 million to sustain West Berlin. Yet, as the nervous French and British often point out, the Ruhr's burgeoning capacity is more than enough to take care...
Astronomers have long known that the space between the stars contains a good bit of gas, dust, and probably larger chunks of unattached matter. The space between galaxies, however, they believed to be virtually empty. The only exceptions they knew about were faintly luminous filaments that seemed to connect a few galaxies...