Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...height of a letter in a certain size of print is ¼ inch. If the following are the heights [in inches] of this letter in other sizes of print, which one is the next larger size...
Discussing the same problem earlier in the year, Pusey had urged business to take a larger share in education than it had up to now. Yesterday, Baxter said "Great as is the assistance of corporate giving to American higher education in 1956, President Pusey is certainly correct in saying that business as a whole is not giving enough...
...actually have existed at Harvard. If so, he cried for the coach's scalp whenever the varsity lost to Yale, showed up at his local Harvard Club only when football movies were being shown, contributed to his Class Fund only so that good old '98 could raise a larger Gift than '97, looked forward to his Class Reunions as the most easily rationalized binges of his life, and otherwise--unless he happened to think there were too many New Dealers on the Faculty--pretty much forgot about Harvard...
...Morison's words, "the possibility of being one's brother's keeper declines when the family numbers over nine hundred," there is also the consideration that somehow, in the modern world, the members of '28 can no longer get very excited about the prospect of raising a Class Gift larger than than...
...only a handful of the larger Clubs that maintain clubhouses, however. More typical would be an organization that might exist in a city the size of Omaha. It would have, say, 40 members. Normally these members would get together perhaps twice a year, once at a Christmas party for present and prospective College students and once at a dinner meeting to be addressed by a member of the Harvard Faculty. In the old days the old grad's Club activity would be limited to these two meetings. He would insist, moreover, that the Faculty member sent out to speak...