Word: size
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...delicate an instrument is the human ear that at certain frequencies it can discern sound that moves the eardrum a distance only one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom. The close-up roar of a jet engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced...
Every day there are bloody clashes by the dozen between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese troops, which carry almost all the Delta load. The three divisions of government troops in the Delta conduct some 30-odd battalion-size actions and 2,500 small patrols a week. Last week a truckload of South Vietnamese Delta reserves was disastrously ambushed. In An Xuyen province, government troops have tangled repeatedly with particularly bothersome Viet Cong battalions...
Half the Ark. Lord Sherfield has a reputation for smoothing out arguments, whether between nations, companies, or factions within companies. That talent is exactly what Hill, Samuel seems to need. Despite its size and profitability, the company has been split by internal dissension. The trouble began almost as soon as Hill, Samuel was formed 16 months ago by the merger of two distinguished but disparate banking firms: blueblood M. Samuel & Co., and new-blood Philip Hill, Higginson, Erlangers...
...support most campaign expenses, Galbraith urges providing "every regularly nominated candidate with a public grant of sufficient size to enable him to get his name, merit, if any, and platform before the people...
...These would be available to candidates for state-wide office, the General Court and for the Senate and House of Representatives. They would be graded in size in accordance with the importance and regional scope of the office and should be substantial -- perhaps $500,000 for a candidate for the governorship or Senate down to $1000 for a member of the Legislature...