Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authorized to refute Mr. Mencken's dire prediction that civilization is coming to an end with the aforementioned sale. To the contrary ... the only change noticed recently is that the portion of Coconut Cream Pie (regularly served on Fridays since time immemorial) is a quarter of an inch larger...
...editorial did not criticize the fund proposed by the Harvard Society for Minority Rights. It merely pointed out that a fund to help a few Negro students pay their tuition was not the answer to a larger problem...
...Therefore, if it is at all possible, the Student Council feels that a new allocation of the money should be made. The new committee is supposed to make "constructive suggestions" to the Corporation. This means that it could conceivably ask for a larger varsity club, as some council members suggested...
...Woodruff, who has the build of a lumberjack, the face of an intelligent fullback, runs the company with a relentless executive grip. He recalls how, in the 1920s, he discovered one day that per capita Coca-Cola sales in Montreal were larger than those in Miami. Then & there he decided that Coca-Cola was destined to spread beyond the U.S., across the world...
...young, and sometimes ate the whole litter. Dainty rats groomed themselves, often dipping their paws in water. Male rats fought over food or mates. Females fought off male advances. (Public Healthman Sidney P. Lanier,* head of the project, says that female rats never yield without a desperate battle against larger or multiple suitors...