Word: petiteness
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Finances have always figured prominently in Lampoon affairs, however, especially since its present home was built. Efforts to make the magazine more solvent included the renting of shops on its Plympton Street side. One of the most famous of these was a basement restaurant called "John's Petit Lunch." Even as early as 1916, John P. Marquand wrote in an article for the Transcript: "The Lampoon has come into almost more than its own. That is, it is still paying for its building on the installment plan...
...doing so, it had brought up to date France's foremost dictionary-encyclopedia. Today the Larousse books are the final popular arbiters for French words: nine out of ten Frenchmen know them, and eight out of ten families own either the one-volume Petit Larousse (1,800 pages, 70,000 words and articles), the two-volume Nouveau Larousse Universel (2,176 pages, 138,423 words and articles), or the definitive dictionary itself with 6,500 pages and 236,000 words and articles. Last week, with the new supplement, scholars and plain citizens could find out what has happened...
...Virginia's School of Medicine charted the physician's responsibility in the prevention of accidents. It begins, they said, with the detection of disorders of the nervous system which may predispose a patient to highway accidents. Chief among these: an uncontrollable tendency to fall asleep (narcolepsy), both petit-mal and grand-mal epilepsy, brain hemorrhages, mental deficiencies and illnesses, Parkinsonism, the aftereffects of lobotomy, and paralysis of nerve centers which govern muscles...
...expects much furor love petit larceny these days when the top men in the field are hitting Brinks for millions, but indifference is downright impolite. If the small-timer does not rate headlines, he at least deserves the dignity of arrest. "Attention must be paid to these men of little talent, who nonetheless are doing their best...
...chill, rainy October evening in 1903, an impressive procession of elegant carriages made its way along the Avenue des Champs Elysėes in Paris. As each carriage reached the door of the Petit Palais, it discharged its passengers: beauteous ladies in turn-of-the-century feathers and frills, aristocratic gentlemen in dove-grey redingotes and embroidered vests...