Word: size
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the school a while to outgrow the gibe. But the Duke of President Edens had much to boast of besides its millions. In the past decade, it had doubled in size (to 5,211 students), and as enrollments swelled, standards had been raised to keep out all but top-ranking applicants. World War II finally eliminated the flashy roadster; the veteran drove out the playboy...
...meeting was apologetically called to order at 5:02 by Mr. Cole, who seems to be the ranking officer in the Coop hierarchy. Mr. Cole is a white-haired man whose kindly face was carefully mounted on a tab collar; throughout the convention he sat midway between two life-size marble statues, one of a Greek athlete and the other of a Greek solon, presumably representing the two sides to the Coop's retailing activities. His first official act was to call upon Mr. Humphreys for a rendition of the previous year's minutes...
Overburdened by the pressure of public affairs, the eminent mayor was unable to handle the moose's schooling and commissioned his son, Sylvain, to tutor the beast. Sylvain waited until the moose attained a reasonable size and then constructed a sulky in front of which the moose was to become the swiftest beast for miles around and a pleasure for all to behold. But it soon became evident that there are certain obstacles to be overcome in the training for harness of every young moose. For one thing, moose pace, and nothing can be done about it. It would neither...
Senators Will Hear ... As the debate began. ex-Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson rolled out a bill based on the Democratic Party platform-a sliding scale of generous supports, ranging from 90% of parity down to 75%, depending on the size of U.S. harvests. But North Dakota's Republican Young and Georgia's Democrat Dick Russell were out to do better by the farmers. They proposed an amendment that would keep price supports on basic crops fixed at the flat 90% of parity which had been set up to increase production in time of war, and which...
Supremely confident ("I think I will bust TV wide open"), Wynn was onstage all but five minutes of the half-hour show, grimacing in a succession of funny hats, outlandish garments and size 13 shoes. The fluttery mannerisms, Rube Goldberg inventions and falsetto giggles were the Wynn trademarks made popular by a long succession of musical comedies (Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 and 1915, The Perfect Fool, Hooray for What...