Word: grander
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...striking, pellucid black-and-white images of the American West make Ansel Adams' photographs instantly recognizable. But the San Francisco-born Adams, whose love affair with photography began on a vacation trip to Yosemite in 1916 with a Brownie box camera, had a grander goal: to save those glorious landscapes. As early as 1950, he warned against reckless lumbering, overgrazing and pollution. But his most persuasive arguments were visual--pictures that forever showed why such treasures as Yosemite and Yellowstone were worth protecting...
...grander dream--of contacting extraintelligent E.T.s like those canal-building Martians imagined by the early 20th century astronomer Percival Lowell--lives on in the radio and optical searches underwritten by private outfits like Drake's SETI Institute and the Planetary Society. And even scientists dubious of success don't want to be spoilsports. They agree on the importance of continuing the quest, not just for microbes on Mars or Europa but also for those faint signals from some remote world--if only to underscore the preciousness of life and the importance of protecting perhaps its lone example. Admits Drake: "Even...
...took 2 1/2 months to prepare the financial and legal requirements for the Growth Enterprise Market listing. Cheng and his team had envisioned a grander debut. They wanted to be on NASDAQ from the outset. But a plea from GEM's chairman, they say, persuaded them to list locally. Timeless had secured $13 million in capital from Taipei-based angel/investor Crimson Asia Capita; the GEM listing raised an additional $58 million...
...rooommates have grander plans than an ambiguous sign. A line of clothing called iFoz-weari is in the works, among other things. According to John R. Kraay e01, one of the roommates, iWeire looking to expand the ebillboard,i to produce some t-shirts, all oriented around the Foz.i Whatever the future holds for this ordinary Midwestern boy, one thingis for sure: wherever The Foz is, the Beast will follow...
...scholar of ancient history will discover these words penned by a gay writer named Fenton Johnson back in 1996: "The mystery of love and life and death is really grander and more glorious than human beings can grasp, much less legislate." He will put this sentence onto a bumper sticker. The message will spread. We will realize that the sexes can't live without each other, but neither can they be joined at the hip. We will grow...