Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frantic attack on General Curtis Le-May by the National Guard Association [Oct. 19] may indicate that they, as well as the U.S. taxpayer, have begun to realize that the U.S. cannot afford to subsidize such a hobby much longer in an age when jets and missiles have supplanted rifles and caissons...
...foreign discriminations against our exports and to listen with sympathy, if not always full belief, to the arguments for continuing stringent exchange controls . . . My government believes that recovery has proceeded to a point where restrictions on trade imposed to meet the financial problems of a decade ago can no longer be justified...
...memoirs, Le Salut (The Salvation), just published in Paris, General Charles de Gaulle, who was once dubbed a spoiled prima donna by Franklin D. Roosevelt, insists that F.D.R.'s "bitter words showed his bad humor rather than a deep sentiment toward me. If he had lived longer, he would have understood and appreciated the reasons which guided...
...healthier than women, in the sense that they complain of fewer illnesses and stay home from work less often. But women are hardier and live longer. Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., 41, reporting this seemingly contradictory finding (by a New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center research team), explains it thus: women have fewer of the serious disorders (notably heart and artery diseases) that kill men in their prime...
There too, however, Sarah Lawrence is moving closer to the tried and true. Over concentration in the arts, a common occurrence in the past, is no longer permitted. No girl may take two courses in the arts simultaneously until her senior year (another recently applied curricular restriction). Even in this area, Sarah Lawrence's radicalism has become more moderate...