Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston several years ago, 123 paid off. So heavily was it bet, there being no half-numbers at the time, that most of the small bookies were bankrupted. The larger, more widely organized and heavily financed groups bought up their debts and, in turn, their clientele. That's the way it remains at present...
Prudent Student. "Then," said Wolf, "it seemed as if someone had struck the plane with a giant hammer." Both sides of the plane burst open just forward of the tail surface, and the wind began to roar through the two jagged holes (the larger, 9 by 4 ft.). A French student prudently untied his shoelaces in preparation for an ocean crash landing...
...didn't do anything real bad," recalls Betty Hutton, as larger audiences have since come to know the freckle-face. "How is a woman supposed to make her living with two kids when her husband deserted her? Mom just ran a joint on a small scale. We'd operate until the cops got wise. Then they'd move in and close us down, and we'd move somewhere else. Marion and I would entertain the customers by dancing and singing. We really lived that way until we were 12 and 14 years old . . . Things were really...
...encourage moderate-cost and larger houses in housing projects by boosting the guarantees on mortgages. Example: The Government will guarantee 95% of the mortgage on two-bedroom houses costing up to $7,000 and four-bedroom houses...
This material, which is open to the students of the University on request, is the nucleus of a still larger collection of books, articles, press clippings, and letters called the Woman's Archives...