Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour they breathed pure oxygen to flush residual helium and nitrogen out of their systems. Then the door was opened, and they stepped out. At once they felt the dreaded pains of the bends, Wookey in his shoulders, Clucas in his legs and chest. They ran into a larger decompression chamber, where they were kept under oxygen for four more hours. When they came out, they felt fine, but tired and very hungry...
...unearthly creature who fed on acclaim, dressed in kudos and walked a path strewn with money, jewels and lovers. For her the real world was only an extension of the unlikely world of opera, a world of passionate hate, tempestuous love and outrageous gesture. The prima donna was larger than life, and a law only to her own towering talent. One composer did not dream of objecting when Maria Malibran (1808-36) regally replaced one whole act he had written with music by another composer. Adelina Patti (1843-1919) traveled in a deluxe private railway car of her own, flanked...
...also has earmarked $8,750,000 for foreign atomic development this year and next. But AEC grants are held to $350,000, and limited to research reactors (estimated cost: $1,000,000 to $3,000,000). Ex-Im will lend larger amounts for either research reactors or power reactors. Several non-Communist nations and U.S. manufacturers already are discussing terms with the bank, which expects to make its first loan by Christmas...
...Although our psychiatric staff is somewhat larger than that of many comparable universities, the clinical demands which are made upon it grow ever more taxing. Almost always every available space in the psychiatrists' appointment books is filled for weeks in advance. In this already overburdened setting new patients keep streaming in, often with urgent problems requiring immediate attention. Appointment schedules must be repeatedly altered to meet the new demands and new patients in acute difficulty must be sandwiched into the already crammed daily program of work. Some of the students with less pressing trouble must have their appointments set aside...
...sight, as we gingerly rounded Halcyon Lake. Squatting close by the shore, her monument was everlastingly protected by tree and shrubs. On the right side, a lady-sized tablet bore a quotation of the Discoverer of Christian Science herself; on the left, a similar tablet, perhaps slightly larger, was inscribed with words of Christ. We immediately rejected any speculation as to who was buried under the latter tablet, on the ground that it would be sacrilegious...