Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million; the vast sterling area, which was admitted as a single trading partner, got $1.06 billion. If any nation went into debt, its IOUs were good, at least at the beginning. But the rules of the game made it tough on reckless losers: the moreIOUs a nation wrote, the larger the proportion of its debts it would have to settle in gold or dollars, instead of in its local currency. A converse rule protected the bank from over-lucky winners: the more credits a nation piled up, the smaller percentage of its surplus could be cashed in gold...
...with the help of Dr. E. F. Carpenter of the University of Arizona. The littlest star (Catalog No. L 886-6) is hot (15,000° to 20,000° F.), and it shines with a white light. But it is only 2,500 miles in diameter, not much larger than the moon...
...only to have it melt away when an early snowstorm struck. When he went to Arizona, he tried again. Last year, with Adventist Elder Lawrence E. Davidson of Phoenix, he rented a small lot for the purpose. Services went so well that this year the Adventists took over two larger plots, one of them in the Negro section of town...
...Columbus' followers. Some historians had thought that there were 60 men on the expedition; others said 71; still others said 108. By combing through Columbus' letters, hunting down birth certificates, digging up royal payrolls, Alice Gould finally set the figure at 89. Then she turned to the larger task of writing a monumental book which would contain a biography of each...
...study for another Broadway success like Lennie's own On the Town (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945). New York Times Critic Howard Taubman suspected that Trouble In Tahiti, was written at "breakneck speed," came away with the impression that it "could and should have been much better." A larger audience will have a chance to judge for itself: NBC will produce it on TV next season...