Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday's game proved it was worth it all. The crowd was dwarfed, perhaps, by the size of the Stadium, yet it was spirited. The teams themselves played hard, interesting football. If the game had been played on the Saturday when originally scheduled, the audience probably would have been larger, but rain made that impossible. The H.A.A.'s enthusiasm in both scheduling and rescheduling the contest proves that reducing the H.A.A. deficit will not be done at the expense of House athletics...
Except as a distant allegory, The Conformist leaves the larger part of Fascism unexplained. Yet, as a picture of one particular Fascist, it is a thoroughly convincing book. It is flawed somewhat by a languorous analytical style which prevents it from picking up dramatic speed, but even second-rank Moravia makes fine reading...
...October is a traditional event. The name descended from ancient times, and has since lost most of its meaning, but it refers to a three-foot cane that one of the two classes tries to wrest from the grasp of the other. Nowadays the canespree has become a much larger series of events, and the name-event is not as important as the tug-o'-war or the track and field events that now make up the program...
...year program, open to all qualified law school graduates from here or abroad, that would emphasize problems of world order and international socio-economic development. "The world's main legal system," the report stated, "would be studied not merely as ends in themselves but as means to the larger end of mutual understanding and co-operation...
...story when Peggy Ellsworth was arrested as a dope addict. But soon Norma Lee got interested in the beauty queen as a person; she persuaded the judge to give her and her husband custody of Miss Michigan. They took her back to Chicago, moved into a larger apartment so she could live with them, got her a clerking job at radio station WGN, enrolled her for voice and piano lessons. Says Norma Lee: "She seemed real happy...