Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fellini's hands, people sometimes seem more important than the screen has made them appear for years; they seem larger, somehow, even the lowliest and most hopelessly lost among them...
...CRIMSON eleven drew crowds 88 percent larger than last year to its first two home Ivy League games, it was learned yesterday. Cornell and Dartmouth games this year attracted 46,100 fans as compared to 24,500 for last year's first two home League games against Cornell and Princeton...
...years ago, the Report to the Board of Overseers of the Committee to Visit Harvard College concluded that the College should grow larger, accepting a share of the national problem of providing a high quality of education for unprecedented numbers of students. This fall, the same committee restated its conclusion and added that "Harvard College should and in all probability will grow during the next ten years to reach an approximate level...
There has never been a time in this country when we did not cherish, support, and seek to advance the opportunities for larger knowledge and clearer vision, for training young minds to love learning and to use it for human betterment. Two examples will serve to suggest the whole. In 1636 the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay appropriated a quarter of their tax levy "towards a schoale or colledge." In 1862 the members of Congress by passing the Morrill Act gave impetus to the whole system of publicly supported institutions of higher learning in the United States...
...moment for Stevenson's arrival grew nearer, the crowd grew larger and more disorganized. While the state troopers struggled bravely to keep the thousands away from the air strip, party workers urged them on. The police held their own for a moment, arm to arm. Then the trooper who was holding closed the main gate let out a groan and the Democratic tide poured through, while a party worker shrieked "Keep back...