Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Borders. Pakistan's claimed 80-odd million population, fifth largest in the world, is split between two land areas at opposite sides of the subcontinent (see map): crowded, fertile East Pakistan, about the size of Wisconsin, and West Pakistan, somewhat larger than Texas. The double territory gives Pakistan five borders to protect, has meant a fabulous expenditure for defense. Almost every sign of backwardness in Pakistan-poor housing, lack of schools-is blamed on the high cost of the army...
...great danger, Ross found, was that almost three-quarters of the people questioned "do not feel that their individual lives are very important in the larger scheme of things . . . Few share deeply in the life of a group dedicated, and actively devoted, to the highest goals of mankind." Few possess a group purpose "such as the disciples had, or the members of a Communist cell possess...
Death on the Road. At midnight, in a drenching rainstorm, the little Fiats were sent off first, then the larger cars-mostly powerful Italian Alfa Romeos and Ferraris and British Jaguars. The man to beat, the experts thought, was four-time winner Clemente Biondetti, a hard-bitten roadwise pro who drove a big Jaguar. No one gave Gianni, Vittorio, Paolo and Umberto Marzotto much of a chance...
Actually, large men's colleges are the most secure of all institutions as far as student mortality is concerned. Small men's colleges have a much larger percentage of attrition...
...larger faculty would immediately make it possible for the Divinity School to start offering new courses that would include the social sciences, patterned after undergraduate human relations and social relations courses...