Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added that the proposed new system should give the community more confidence in the drive, and result in a larger percentage of contributors in the future...
...College may admit a considerably enlarged Freshman Class next fall, according to one high Administration official. "I cannot help but feel that next year's Freshman class will be larger than the present one," the official said yesterday. "It might even include an extra hundred students...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5--The Eisenhower administration sketched out a $40,900,000,000 defense budget today for leaders of the new Congress, a figure slightly larger than last year's appropriation...
...Piece of Ice. For all its scientific, precision-tooled marvels, the Nautilus sometimes developed quirks that only homely ingenuity could resolve. A few months before the '58 transpolar run, a leak "no larger than a human hair" developed in the steam-condenser system. An agonizing search by experts failed to track it down. In a do-it-yourself mood, Commander Anderson had the crew pour 70 quart cans of "Stop Leak," a $1.80-a-can remedy for auto radiator leaks, into the Nautilus condenser system, and it stopped the leak that might eventually have cost the life...
...annual features of TIME'S news coverage is the Year-End Review, in which the editors scan the U.S. economy for the year just past, and present a forecast for the year ahead. Over the last decade nothing has loomed larger in the financial news than Wall Street's bull, long a symbol of a rising stock market. But to TIME'S editors the bull does not mean Wall Street alone. He is also a symbol of the power of the U.S. economy. In the past ten years TIME'S readers have seen five bulls...