Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mohammed Ali took a second wife, irate women stoned his car. Throughout the country, women are stepping out into a bright new world of universities and industry, of monthly paychecks and partnership in the home, of planned parenthood and Max Factor makeup. In the red-light districts of some larger cities the veil, instead of being the hallmark of respectability, is now worn chiefly by harlots as protective coloration...
Officers claimed that some larger Council projects might have to be curtailed by their lack of funds. Treasurer Marc E. LeLand '59, said that Council members would like to make several new reports...
...trend towards academic disorientation at Andover, a school which resembles Exeter in everything but intensity. Before the process proceeds any further, however, it is worth nothing that education is not Exeter's only product. There are few statistics, but they are revealing. Exeter graduates leave Harvard in larger numbers than any other group. They see psychiatrists in unusual numbers. Despite their preparation, they do worse than the average freshmen, placing only thirty percent of their group on the Dean's List, compared to a class average of forty percent...
...Historical Studies may make a similar claim. Although it is not so large as its mathematics counterpart, its faculty is equally distinguished. Such men as Sir Llewellyn Woodward, Homer Thompson, Kennan, and Ernst Kantorowicz make the School one of the finest in the country. The School of Mathematics is larger by about 75 members to 25 members partly because there are more funds available for mathematical study than for historical work and partly because the em- inence of the early mathematical faculty, which included the late Albert Einstein, gave the Institute a brilliant reputation in that area...
...which was a great deal of sound and fury, signifying very little, for Wolfe's mother paid for his support through Harvard. What he really seemed to want was recognition, and a larger audience than the man in the classroom...