Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are currently eight foreign service officers studying in the Harvard Regional Studies Program, McKay revealed, and this number is the largest ever. Although there has been no definite assurance from the Government, McKay expects an even larger group next year. Expansion of the department will not be considered until the new number is known, however...
...salary of about ?25 a year (and with an old sewing machine to help make his clothes), Archdeacon Gill has been the Christian servant and leader of about 4,000 people in an area a little larger than Connecticut. In addition to his liturgical duties he has assisted at childbirths, performed operations, pulled teeth, built a church, a school, furniture work shops, a lighting plant and a wharf. When the Japanese blitzed his mission during World War II, his devoted people carried him off to the mountains, reverently hauled along his old typewriter so he could finish his translation...
...that appreciation and analysis can be learned by doing, the department last year instituted two new courses: Fine Arts 16, dealing with the Theory and Practice of Drawing and Painting: Fine Arts 17, Theory and Practice of Sculpture. Both proved to be popular and will probably be expanded to larger enrollments next year...
Hamburg captains dressed their ships in gay signal flags, beaming teachers gave school kids the day off. The cause for rejoicing was a letter from the Allied High Commission which lifted several restrictions on shipbuilding. German ships up to last week could not be larger than 7,200 tons or faster than 12 knots. Now Germans can have ships as big and as fast as they want, although a limit on overall tonnage remains. (Within two days North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amerika ordered 14 new 16-knot vessels...
...student members of the Senate are also members of the larger Legislative Assembly, the group that deals with matters of exclusive student control. Their numbers are supplemented by organizational representatives and house representatives, one for every 30 students...