Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While the Harvard College Library system keeps no record of its books by size, librarian lore points to this Russian goliath. Thanks to Houghton librarian Susan Halpert, a woman well-acquainted with the anomalies of the literary world, FM presents the biggest book: an 1856 depiction of the coronation of Tsar Alexander II is, in fact, Houghton's biggest book...
...course, anyone with a pocket protector will point out that labeling Harvard's "biggest" computer requires gross simplification. Are we talking biggest monitor? Biggest capacity? Computer which allows most number of simultaneous log-ons? Computer "size" is truly in the definition of the beholder, and Machine Room #1 can be considered to house the "biggest" only in the sense that its giant is currently devoted to the largest single task of any Harvard computer system...
...When he was 12, his feet were a size 12. When he turned 13, his feet grew to a size 13. Fourteen years old and his feet were size 14. This mysterious trend continued every year until Timothy Coleman `01 turned 18, and his feet remained an imposing size 17. But such a big personality would not be complete with anything smaller. Coleman, a big basketball player with a big laugh, would not be who he is today if it were not for the defining role of his feet. They made the sacrifice when all of Coleman could...
...later, NCI researchers announced that they had been able to reduce tumor size using one of Folkman's drugs, endostatin...
...senior center Bill Ewing did an admirablejob against the Cornell big men--who have made ahabit controlling the paint against its Ivy Leagueopponents--collecting his second consecutivedouble-double with 10 points and 14 rebounds. Butit was not enough for Harvard, as Cornell'ssuperior size and depth wore the Crimson down...