Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Griswold led off last Wednesday by contrasting the advantages of the Harvard system--its diversity of students, excellent professors, and sharp competition--with those of the smaller law schools...
Geometry & Assurance. For delicate tastes there were the smaller, cooler and more careful paintings of France's top second-rankers, including Pierre Tal-Coat (44), Andre Marchand (42), Francis Tailleux (36) and Edouard Pignon (44), who unabashedly follow Picasso's and Matisse's lead and do it well. If their geometrized landscapes and still lifes said nothing very new, they at least spoke with assurance. Originality, they could reasonably argue, is less important than mastery...
Though the Waldorf is smaller (1,900 rooms) than the Stevens and short of the Plaza's leisurely charm, it is the greatest hotel in the world to Hilton, as to almost everyone else...
National's "Star" passengers will get the full red-carpet treatment, starting with a carpet on the loading ramp and recorded music at take-offs and landings. The specially decorated DC-6s will seat 56 people and will have a lounge (Eastern's smaller Constellations carry 60 passengers, some sitting three abreast), fresh flowers in the planes every day, and such features as hot hors d'oeuvres and linen napkins. Fares will be no higher than on other DC-6 flights...
...speech, Griswold briefly sketched the Law School's distinguished history and then went on to mention some of the present problems it faces. He claimed that its relatively large size gives it advantages in library, faculty, and cosmopolitan student body not to found in smaller institutions...