Word: greater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poetry has a greater relevance today than almost ever in the past, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, said last night, in an Eliot House symposium on the "Poet and Modern Society...
Last week, as the Red armies of China swept unopposed across the Pearl River Delta, chasing ragged anti-Communist forces toward the Macao line, Oliveira realized he must behave with greater circumspection than any governor before him. The gunfire of China's war was audible in the Portuguese colony. Through Porta do Cêrco, the massive, yellow brick border gate, poured panicky peasants and deserting Nationalist soldiers, clamoring for haven from the advancing Reds. Black sentries from Mozambique allowed them to pass, first stripping the deserters of weapons. By week's end, over Pak-sha-leang...
S.R.O. Graham's sponsors, combined under the name "Christ for Greater Los Angeles," expected him to hold meetings for only four weeks. But this week he had already overstayed his original engagement by two weeks, and was drawing bigger crowds every night. Some 250,000 had crowded to hear him (the tent holds 6,280 but the standees fan out into the street), and nearly every prominent minister in Los Angeles had put in an appearance on Billy Graham's crowded platform...
...other American industry, great or small, has forgotten that women own about 70% of the nation's wealth and control an even greater percentage of its buying. More than 90% of the country's advertising is directed at the woman . . . but postwar [motion] picture advertising has been plastered with maniacal killers, rapists, thugs of all varieties . . . The typical woman gets more than she wants of that in the news columns. She is not disposed to go to the [movies] for more of the same...
...average score of seniors in one school was 50 percent greater than that of seniors in another school," the agency report stated yesterday in a report released by Howard R. Bierman, director of the tests...