Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the scientists in our civilization constitute a new sort of religious order [that] sets itself apart from the world by a discipline, a language and an attitude. The attitude is that of contemptus mundi, a scorn for the ordinary pleasures and privileges of life. The language is no longer Latin but mathematics, and this is the universal tongue in which the higher rituals of the order are conducted all over the earth. The candidate who presents himself for ordination must mortify the flesh through long years of labors in the laboratory. His reward is membership in a community which...
...cannot say that Harvard's teachers are bigger, better, longer lasting, more glamorous or less irritating than those of our competitors. They don't wear more chrome, have longer fins, provide fewer calories or come equipped with more effective filters...
...short ribs. Sugar Ray stabbed and ran. Whenever the Chittenango (N.Y.) onion farmer caught him, Robby covered himself nicely in the clinches. The handsome Harlem hot shot was a reasonable facsimile of the man who was once the fanciest fighter in the prize ring, but he was no longer the swift-punching dancing master who had moved up from the welterweights to terrorize the middleweights. He was not even as sharp as he looked last September when Basilio took his title away. But Robby was more than good enough...
...since Moses covenanted with Yahweh to worship Him alone. In that time the wheel has turned full circle: the people of Gilead. "grown fat on the oil and milk of the land," are not only a fragment of a disunited Israel but have become easygoing polytheists. Yahweh is no longer the fire-god of Sinai; he is merely one of many gods that dwell in the hills. When Gilead's warriors capture maidens in battle, they no longer sacrifice them to Yahweh; they marry them instead and adopt their alien gods. Even Gilead, the great judge, takes a heathen...
...real drop of the middle-priced car has been brought about by Detroit itself. Until the 19403, the low-priced three-Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth -manufactured cheap, compact cars meant chiefly for transportation. As demand grew for wider and longer cars with more room and comfort, Detroit changed the once small cars into big ones. From 1938 to date, Chevrolet has grown two feet overall; Ford has grown four feet since 1928. Both are now bigger than the Pontiac, Packard or Oldsmobile of ten years...