Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mobs of people, traffic, strain on City services-those were some of the objections the group voiced to the Shady Hill plans. But perhaps the underlying cause of discontent was the feeling that 300 units of housing simply wouldn't fit, that a development of this size would ruin what some called the aesthetic and historical character of the neighborhood. As Jones put it, to visualize the size of the project, "you would have to picture two buildings the size of William James Hall surrounded by smaller buildings...
...year and argue that it is vital to keep this return high in an era when all divisions of the University are increasing their demands for funds. "If you take unrestricted money which is now earning interest and use it to meet operating expenses, you just increase the size of the deficit; it's a vicious circle." Wiggins says...
...eight o'clock on the first night my head was swelling to the size of a 24-volume home library from the sun and lack of liquid-of course there were no stores. And my fingers had started to lose feeling because my 15 pound display case was cutting off my circulation...
...think you had better talk to my husband just now. He's trying to install a new air conditioner we ordered, and it came in the wrong size, and he's awfully irritated...
...most of the nation, TIME correspondents found that the size and vitality of the M-day turnout exceeded dispassionate expectations. Even in the Midwestern heartland, reported Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark, "so many of these folks?far from being professional liberals or agitators or youths simply trying to avoid the draft?were pure, straight middle-class adults who had simply decided, in their own pure, straight middle-class way, that it was time for the U.S. to get the hell out of the war in Viet...