Word: size
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to say now is this. Your magazine contains no news, we read all the news in the newspapers a week or so ahead of your issues. Your comments do not amount to a row of pins, after we have seen enough _of them to size them up. Your attitude is distinctly Smart Aleck and Puffed Up-"Swelled Head," so to speak...
Several innovations have been made by the 1939 Board in the book. For the first time the cover will have a Harvard scene as the background on the cover. Although the book will be approximately the same size as that of a year ago, new features have been included. Outstanding is an article on education at Harvard during the past four years. Greater length will be given to a stories on sports and the Houses...
...Caltech's 200-inch) are completed. At present the visible universe is a galaxy-studded space a billion light-years in diameter. Some day it may be found that this whole aggregation with its hidden fringes is moving as an organized system relative to other aggregations of comparable size, not yet seen...
...States "in actual heed" be given Federal grants to help their indigents. Moreover, the Committee insisted that States give their "medical indigents" cash benefits to pay doctors' bills, and abandon the custom of paying doctors through relief agencies. This would preserve for physicians the privilege of adjusting the size of their bills...
Unveiled in Manhattan's General Post Office, the Mailomat is about the size of a telephone booth, performs a similar service. You put your money in one slot, your letter in another, push a lever and the letter is automatically stamped and posted. Advantages are sanitation (no licking) and speed (no waiting at a post office window, no need for the letter to be canceled...