Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After reading TIME'S account of the sophomoric views of Sir Julian Huxley, one almost despairs of hoping that he and his better known brother Aldous will ever grow up to the size of their intellects. HERBERT O. WILLIAMS Arlington...
...only one that has refused Norstad authority to send its planes into immediate action in event of a Soviet attack, the only one that has refused to hook into the Europe-wide air-warning-and-command net that NATO hopes to finish building by 1961. (Given the small size of Western Europe-Paris lies only 350 miles from the Communist frontier of East Germany-this is roughly like refusing to agree to coordinated air defense of Chicago and Minneapolis...
...inconspicuously out of the Lyceum Theater and walked two blocks back to his paper. He settled into his chair on the third floor of the Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched immediately by the impatient copy desk-he delivered his judgment ("inherently hopeless'') on Goodbye Charlie, the comedy he had just seen. Within an hour, the Times's presses were reproducing an appraisal...
...Wankel engine is not as efficient as a diesel, but its makers say that its fuel consumption is about the same as the economical Volkswagen. The most extraordinary thing about it is its small size. A 28.6-metric-h.p. model is 8 in. in diameter, 6 in. long, weighs only 22 lbs. The Volkswagen engine has about the same horsepower, but is many times bigger and weighs...
...size of the biggest family fortune made in the get-rich-quick U.S. electronics industry was fixed last week. Only 30 minutes after being placed on the market, the first public offering of 1,000,000 shares of Transitrun Electronic Corp. at $36 each was snapped up by investors. Not since the first public sale of 10.2 million Ford Motor Co. shares in 1956 has a stock issue attracted such broad public demand. Transitron quickly jumped to $49 per share in over-the-counter trading, closed the week at $43 per share. To Transitron's owners, David...