Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's 26 to 19 victory over Dartmouth Saturday failed to impress New England sports authorities who again ranked the Crimson fifth among the larger New England colleges in their weekly poll...
...moved into the top spot by virtue of a 14 to 13 win over Fordham. The Eagles pushed Holy Cross down into second place and Boston University into third. Yale edged out Harvard for the number four position. Dartmouth in sixth, and Brown, seventh, complete the list of the larger colleges...
...Salt Lake City, he was greeted by crowds that were larger than those which had turned out for Ike the previous week. Stevenson discussed America's destiny and the pressures of cold war. Said he: "The first temptation is to be half-regretful, half-ashamed of our strength . . . Regretful (God help us!) in the face of the stirring truth that Lincoln's vision has come true, that now we are indeed the 'last, best hope of earth' . . . What a day to live in! What a flowering of the work and the faith of our fathers...
...Archibald Cox, a Harvard Law School professor. Explaining his. board's action, Cox said: "The real issue before us, in this case, is whether we shall now abandon the fight against inflation . . . Our decision is against such a step . . ." The coal miners, he added, could not justly claim larger wage increases than those granted to steel, rubber, auto and other workers...
...soft coal miners walked out in protest against the WSB's decision. Having lost two months' steel production, the nation was now faced with the prospect of another crippling shutdown of defense industry (though the prospect was not immediate; the amount of coal above ground is larger than usual). The coal strike, even more clearly than the steel strike, was the result of unsuccessful Government interference in free collective bargaining...