Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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P.B.H. announced that it will handle tickets for the Boston theatres, as well as the Boston Symphony Rehearsal series. P.B.H. will also operate a football ticket exchange for those who wish to return tickets in favor of a larger or smaller number...
...debts and fill the gaps in personnel. While contributors have pledged $10,000 the Brattle Corporation may have to sell the theatre if it does not get the other half, which can only come from outside subscriptions, within the next few weeks. To encourage larger contributions, Brattle has followed the Symphony's example, reorganizing itself into a non-profit corporation, so that gifts are tax-deductable. This money will go into a trust, and the Brattle will not touch it until there is $20,000 then, only to produce again...
Best guess of oilmen was that Jones was trying to work out a deal to get Iranian oil not only for Cities Service but for a group of U.S. oil companies and Anglo-Iranian. The larger U.S. companies can use more crude and have the tankers to transport it. While Anglo-Iranian has shown no disposition to cut any outsiders in on Iranian oil, U.S. oilmen think it may be the only hope left for a solution that would save face all around...
...loss to the advance of science. Technology and medicine have made enormous progress in the last few decades but as a consequence there has been a heavy emphasis on applied science. Indeed, some harassed college presidents might be inclined to complain that the natural sciences were suffering from elephantiasis larger and larger telescopes, more and more powerful cyclotrons, bigger and bigger budgets. Yet this is a period of brilliant advance in some fields of basic science. The emphasis on the practical is not confined to the physical and biological sciences. Vast projects in the social sciences are underway...
...special issue is a noteworthy contribution not merely to the cause of academic freedom in the United States, but to the larger cause even of American education and of the freedom without which the very notion of democracy becomes an idle phrase...