Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colleges themselves are subject to increasing enrollment. Ambitions for a college education cannot be entirely satisfied by state universities; the junior college program, still in its infancy, is over-crowded and undermanned. Each fall a larger high school graduating class takes more college entrance examinations, and the number of able, qualified young men capable of college work mounts accordingly...
...those interested in golf, the Essex fairways were open to the Class of '32, and driving and putting contests were held behind the clubhouse, while inside the clubhouse a few square dancing enthusiasts bounced around the floor in a futile attempt to arouse a larger amount of participation from their fellow classmates...
...Benoit and Father Leroy secured a supply of DNA extracted from the genitals of Khaki-Campbell ducks, which are smallish birds with brown bodies and greenish-black beaks. Then they bought from a reliable dealer nine new-hatched female ducklings and three males of the Pekin breed, which is larger and creamy white, with an orange bill...
Soon after the widow with her placard appeared before the embassy, small knots of spectators joined her. Police dispersed them, but as their numbers grew the police were unable to cope with them. Inside the embassy an officer remarked: "Look, we're being demonstrated against." The crowds grew larger, began to stone the embassy; eight attachés took to an air-raid shelter. Chinese police and firemen tried to keep the crowds back with fire hoses, were greeted with howls of derision when they turned on the hose and produced only a feeble spurt of water...
Other experts such as Lee Simonson '09 recommended an even larger, 1000 seat auditorium in addition to the 200 seat one. Both these would, under Simonson's plan, be part of a larger Visual Arts Center. The report of the Committee on Visual Arts recommended a Design Center separate from the Theatre. There has been no final decision on such a Center, but it will definitely not be in the same building with the Theatre...