Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered his library, his dining hall, his social center, his museum, his laboratory, his chapel, and his lecture room. But the passage of time has seen the College expand by leaps and bounds, and gradually all but the very last of these functions has been shifted to newer and larger structures...
...build engines, but to expand capacity to build. The goal by 1953 is a national productive capacity of 50,000 planes and 216,000 jet engines a year. Thus, instead of concentrating on total production in fewer plants, the manufacturers must spread their skilled forces thin to bring the larger number of plants into limited production. They must have huge new research and development facilities to perfect their knowledge of the infant science of jets (United alone has spent $12 million on its turbine laboratory...
Like many classics, this work, first published in 1678, has been read for generations only by schoolchildren and scholars. Nancy (Love in a Cold Climate) Mitford's new translation is an attempt to prove that it deserves a larger audience. Translator Mitford has tackled an almost desperately lost cause, for the chief interest of the book is still a curiosity interest: The Princess of Cleves happens to be the first novel that is recognizably "modern...
...Shakespeare's earliest and it is his most frivolous. A group of scholars vow to live three years isolated from all female companionship, but the arrival of a French princess and her female entourage challenges and soon ridicules the pledge. Upon this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after the women have been called...
...Coliseum, followed by the Apache Belles, a 34-girl marching and dancing group from Tyler Junior College, dressed in abbreviated white satin outfits and Indian headdress. Down behind the riding chutes, the college cowboys carefully checked over their equipment-from the slick "piggin strings" (for tying calves) to the larger pieces of "rigging" (saddles, boots, chaps) that cost the more sharply dressed competitors more than $600 an outfit...