Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mount Vesuvius was blazing in several places ... A black and dreadful cloud bursting out in gusts of igneous serpentine vapor now and again yawned open to reveal long, fantastic flames, resembling flashes of lightning, but much larger . . . Cinders fell . . . then pumice-stones too, with stones blackened, scorched and cracked by fire...
...serve as a stop-gap prod to enlistment. Many young men can today avoid military service. The full needs of the Armed services were met last year with 507,000 draftees and volunteers out of a pool of one million of draft age. The pool will get larger and larger, and those drafted or volunteering will be a smaller proportion than they...
...necessarily an advocate of "Republican prosperity" as opposed to "Democratic prosperity," I still must beg to differ with your economic views as propounded in your editorial of September 28. The writer, in pointing out the very true fact that the National Income or Gross National Product is made larger through debt financing, uses this fact to imply that: 1) our prosperity is a mirage; 2) the Republicans are to blame for the debt; and 3) that the Republicans are guilty of deceit in saying that this is an era of unmatched economic well-being. With these implications I cannot agree...
...larger, expanded Harvard, Houses ideally will play an increasingly important role in maintaining some "small college atmosphere." Not only must existing houses be strengthened, but the new buildings must compensate for physical limitations dictated by the budget...
During this same period, income has doubled, but costs have quadrupled. As a result, other immediate sources of income have come to share a larger portion of the expenses, and in particular, this is one of the reasons for the tuition increases of as much as 25 percent in the College and several of the graduate schools...