Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of people who think something like that about the Korean war may be larger than Candidate Stevenson thinks. This week Elmo Roper's public-opinion poll published the following results of what percentage of Americans agree with the following statements on what the U.S. should do in Korea...
Shoes, it seems, are shoes, and ever more will be so. Stockings are seamless, in a noble effort to appear like no stockings at all. Handbags steadily grow larger. Suits, too, are ant-shaped, with zoot jackets...
...precise pronunciation of Romani may have stopped reverberating in the Stockyards Amphitheatre, but the troubles that called it forth are still rattling about Republican circles in Puerto Rico. The dispute, as important in principle if not votes as any of the larger contests aired at the GOP convention, has simply shifted from the convention floor, where viewers glimpsed it only during the ludicrous moments when the threeman delegation was polled, to the National Committee, where Eisenhower enthusiasts in Puerto Rico have filed suit to oust the pro-Taft National Committeeman and woman...
Every now & then Levine descends from his propaganda perch to paint a frankly personal picture. Only slightly larger than the reproduction opposite, King Saul carries no message except its touch of pathos. It is the latest of a series of Israelite kings which Levine began as a tribute to his father. The painting served as a relaxation from Levine's big, grim canvases, took years of off & on "fiddling" to finish...
...catch the unwary visitor, there were two paintings called The Empty Chair, both of which are genuine works by David Bles, who simply made a larger version of his first Chair. Visitors were urged to fill out questionnaires identifying unlabeled fakes and genuine pictures; of 1,827 - including some experts- only seven scored 100%. (Wrote one canny viewer: "This picture can't be real, because if it were, there'd be a guard here...