Word: length
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bookstores. “Hannukah Haiku,” by Harriet Ziefert with Karla Gudeon’s pics Jewish holidays, Japanese poetry, and fly illustrations. A picture’s worth a thousand words. That’s 10 times the words in this whole book. The length is perfect for tired parents who need short bedtime stories. Two cultures for the price of one. A great deal! Thank the giving author. “Holiday Princess,” by Meg Cabot In keeping with its “Princess Diaries” subject, this holiday book cover...
...terms of length, this recession already looks likely to break the postwar record of 16 months set in 1973-75 and equaled in 1981-82. The NBER has deemed December 2007 the start date (because that's when employment peaked), and it's very hard to find anybody willing to predict that the economy will resume growing by May. As for severity, though the first eight months of the recession were quite mild, the pace of job losses since August is beginning to rival that of the big 1970s and '80s recessions. So while President-elect Barack Obama and others...
Members of the administration proposed three new scheduling options that would allow for 15 minutes between classes. The one proposal discussed at length features 75-minute class blocks, giving professors the leeway of using between 55 and 75 minutes of this time frame...
...metallic-sheen suit strolls slowly down an aisle with a dark-haired woman in fur on his arm. They stop occasionally to examine one of the many Persian carpets arrayed on a wall the length of a tennis court. Against the black cloth of the exhibition hall's walls, the brightly colored handmade silk carpets - in vibrant blues and greens, luscious reds and purples - almost leap off the backdrop...
...Then there's the matter of whether they can actually afford to spend $155,000 on a carpet at the moment. "No one knows what will happen next with the financial crisis," Kazakov says. "Everyone is waiting to see." His wife adds, as she continues to walk down the length of the display, "But when you want something ..." (See pictures of Russian aristocracy...