Word: richer
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...keeping with the educational ecumenism of the day, more and more U.S. divinity schools are abandoning their cloistered solitude for the richer dialogue available at large universities. Latest illustrations of the trend: the faculty of Woodstock College, a Jesuit seminary in Maryland, voiced the wish to affiliate with the Yale University Divinity School and move to New Haven, subject to approval by Rome; and the Colgate Rochester Divinity School, an interdenominational institution, decided to join hands with the University of Rochester. In both cases, a student-faculty exchange would occur; in each, the smaller school would retain its separate identity...
Both men showed that thoughtfulness, charm, and humor do not hurt, but enhance, scholarship. Harvard is much richer for their examples...
Their Schubert bounded with youthful energy and spontaneity, and their Franck was a lyrical flood. But it was the richer, darker Brahms that most fully revealed the uncanny empathy that enabled them to pass themes back and forth, coloring and developing them but always weaving them seamlessly. The audience of 2,500 was so entranced that it barely noticed when a bird fluttered in the door, looped lazily over the two musicians, then settled in the rafters...
...many as 700. He may have a point. Turbines are notoriously affected by weather. On a hot day, a turbine engine may op erate at only 80% of its normal ef- ficiency. In cool weather, on the other hand, it may be 120% efficient, be cause cool air is richer in oxygen and nitrogen. And the temperature at Indy was an unseasonable...
Harvard is the richest private University in the nation. Two years ago, its endowment passed $1 billion, and each year it runs a budget of more than $130 million. But if Harvard is big and rich now, it will be bigger and richer ten years from now: the University continues to seek new financial support at an astounding pace. Just last winter President Pusey, in his annual report, listed $160 million of capital needs currently being sought...