Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategy? U.S. air experts pointed to the silent cannon facing Con Thien as one example. The artillery shells that the Communists had been firing at the Marines weigh about 21 Ibs. to 107 Ibs. apiece. If the trains do not run and the trucks cannot pass, shells of that size simply do not find their way south in sufficient numbers to enable the North Vietnamese gunners to match muscle with U.S. Marines...
...proposal, passed Friday, urged Richard T. Gill's committee on Mather House "to abandon" the option of increasing class size to fill the House. HUC, by vote of 8-7 at its meeting, substituted a weaker statement urging the Gill committee to "discuss the option of increasing class size to fill the House only in the larger context of educational policy and the philosohpy of the House system...
...officers, who had been empowered by the HPC to accept changes in the proposal, rejected the HUC version because, said Henry Norr '68, HPC president, "the thrust of the HPC wording is that the (Gill committee should discuss increased class size, while we think they should not discuss...
Carl A. Baum '69, in defense of the original HPC version, suggested that "it is possible that the decision to expand the size of the college class has already been made...
...average investor, put and call options have always ranked as one of the stock market's more unfathomable sideshows. Despite a lingering taint as a game best fit for crapshooters, the option business this year has swelled to unprecedented size in line with both Wall Street's speculative fever and the sharp rise in total trading. Last month the volume of options written so far in 1967 climbed to 16,264,900 shares, eclipsing the old record of 15,418,200 shares...