Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movement to switch the scene of the commencement exercises was deemed necessary by the senior class because of crowded conditions in Sanders due to the larger Radcliffe classes...
...varsity's margin would have been even larger had not Ulen, pointing for the record, saved his best free-stylers to rest them for the relay. As it was, the Crimson took first in nine of ten events...
...powered American radio transmitter, a newly made Russian receiving set, and a file of ciphers which gave them the key to the government's collection of coded messages. At the carpenter's home, at first they found nothing. But after searching, a policeman spotted a hole no larger than a golfball at the rear of the house. He shouted down the hole, "Come out!" and jumped back with astonishment when a muffled voice replied: "I have work to do." Then smoke curled from the small opening; the trapped man had started to burn secret papers. Police rushed...
...There was even worse news for radio. Every one of the eight top TV shows now reaches a larger audience than listens to Amos 'n' Andy, the No. 1 radio show...
...collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed I went shopping at Sears for more Maidenform bras"). Most expensive item: diamonds (up to $1,795) -on the cheaper rings, "magic reflector settings make diamonds seem larger...