Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Yard dorms were built before the start of the 20th century (one in the 18th century), but all these halls have rooms that are larger than the average ones in other colleges. In addition, these old dorms have enough tradition to make up for the sloping floors...
Thirteen sports were used in last years freshmen intra-mural program with teams organized in some and tournaments held in the rest. Student managers run each dorm squad, and to make the size of the squads competing more equal, some of the larger halls are divided into sections...
...business my father left," says Chito, "was small, and we were a large family. We couldn't make the family smaller, so we made the business larger." The brothers put up a cotton mill, soon found that to be successful ginners they would have to finance cotton growers, wound up owning four banks, 10,000 acres of cottonland. In partnership with Anderson, Clayton & Co., worldwide U.S. cotton brokers, they built two big cottonseed mills. When they found they had a surplus of cottonseed oil, they built a vegetable-shortening plant to process...
...different view. This week it declared: "Thousands of non-Europeans, because they have been unable to see any prospects of bettering themselves socially or economically, have turned in sheer hopelessness to the . . . lawless alternatives left to them. Threatened by the monster they have created, the European citizens of the larger South African centers have seemingly still no conscience regarding their deed . . . If we do not destroy this monster and remove its cause, it will destroy...
...leading contenders for a crack at Light Heavyweight Champion Maxim is Seattle Boxer Harry ("Kid") Matthews, who has squabbled for months with New York's International Boxing Club (TIME, July 9). Last week the deadlock was finally broken when the I.B.C. offered him a larger cut of the television percentages. I.B.C. Boss Jim Norris offered Matthews a bout in Chicago (an I.B.C. city) on Oct. 3, which had to be turned down because of Matthews' previous commitments. But it looked as though Matthews (who gave Irish Bob Murphy a resounding beating last March) would finally get his chance...