Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridge. Thousands of Americans who see the Queen during the coming round of balls and receptions, and millions more who get only a glimpse on the television screen, may detect Philip at this small but important task. But this is only one facet of a larger achievement. In the increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain's monarchy found itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household whose members saw only other aristocrats and seemed chiefly concerned with horse racing or - shooting grouse. But today, Britain's throne has never...
...high standing among California's Republican regulars gives him a leg up in the June primary over Goodie Knight. But Knowland might well have a tougher time against his likely Democratic opponent, Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who has the advantage of California's larger Democratic registration, is running ahead of Knowland in informal polls, and would doubtless get help from some unhappy Knight Republicans...
Badge of Honor. The police's brutality aroused many who had been only mildly concerned over the fate of Po Prostu, and the next night a larger throng gathered in Narutowicza Square. The students flaunted their bandages as badges of honor. In the shadow of the Church of Swietego Jakuba the rioters played a kind of reckless Warsaw pingpong with the police, picking up their tear-gas bombs and hurling them back into their ranks...
...social system based on unlawfulness, oppression and unhappiness, when it masks itself with humanistic phraseology, does not, in spite of appearances, become more effective in the long run. At a certain moment, its facade turns against it because it was always alien to it." But, he adds, "in the larger view, the increase of hypocrisy is proof of moral progress because it testifies that what was done formerly outspokenly without fear of being compromised cannot be carried out today without that risk...
...respects from Mormon Country). Like the South, Mormon Country has a very colorful history, established mode of life, and a much more definite set of values than even the South. Also like the South, and Ireland, and Russia, this has been a region in direct conflict with a larger culture, in this case, that of the rest of the United States which claimed moral and possessed physical superiority...