Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute gesture or item, such as the pencil reproduced in actual size on this page, can sometimes acquire great value. That is just what happened when a voluntary organization asked G.I.s in Viet Nam what their most-wanted items were. Those needs were modest-such things as a pair of dry socks and some writing material. TIME provided the tiny pencil, which the Christian Reform Laymen's League included in 200,000 packets to Viet Nam. Surprisingly, the minipencil is serving purposes far beyond postcard writing. Its wooden shaft, wrote one Marine, is being used to clean the hard...
...took part in a nationwide program of draft resistance and the defense kept up a drumfire of demands that the government produce specific information to substantiate the existence of the anti-draft conspiracy. The lawyers pressed particularly to discredit the government's depiction of the alleged conspiracy's size. "Anything that happened within the nation--I would assume all 50 states--could come with in the purview of this indictment," St. Clair said. Leonard Boudin, Spock's sad-eyed attorney, was particularly critical of the indictment's supposed vagueness...
...sociologists, working on a $70,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, questioned 400 faculty members at eight institutions of varying size, quality, and research orientation...
...scale was based on size, quality, and research-orientation of the institution. In those institutions rated highest by this scale, most of the professors said that they preferred to be influential members of their department rather than having formal authority as department chairmen...
...this one on for size. Two years ago, the Harvard Classics, then a fledgling basketball squad in search of an identity and not the powerhouse it is today, traveled to the Deer Island Correctional Institute for a game with the local residents. Following the contest, a 74-73 Classics triumph, Adams House inmate Peter Durgerian sat on the visitors' bench blissfully piping a tune on his harmonica...