Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smuggled in a dwarf for Snow White, a wig for Shirley Temple, shoes for Garbo, size 9, a necktie for Charlie McCarthy, a rattle for Mickey Mouse and a corncob pipe for Popeye...
...tiny demonstrator (50 h.p., 90 m.p.h., 672 lb. unloaded), took off with 876 lb. of gasoline and did not come down until he got to New York. It took him 30 hours and 37 minutes and he set a new non-stop distance record for planes of this size. Total operating cost: $30.91. Cheapest bus fare for the trip...
...intrepid Lexicographer Scholes laboriously wrote out the whole of his million-word book. When he had finished, he had covered 132 acres of paper weighing ten tons. Scholarly Scholes's one-man Companion had one ingredient that made it unique among music dictionaries: charm. Only half the size of the two U. S. dictionaries, it is a masterpiece of condensation and cross-referencing, is beautifully illustrated...
...potatoes, for they were cheap and filling. But not all human machines can burn such excessive quantities of starchy fuel as Elka Abrams stowed away and by the time she was 55 Mrs. Abrams was a victim of advanced diabetes. Fortnight ago, having shrunk to half her former size, she slipped into a diabetic coma, was bundled out of her house by police and rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in a patrol wagon...
...members, meets at the Hotel Muehlebach, discusses current bestsellers, without, say Kansas City booksellers, appreciably increasing book sales. But in Omaha, the Matthews Bookstore, biggest in the city, actively organizes book clubs, has been so successful that Omaha now boasts more of them than any city of its size in the U. S. Most influential is the Dundee. Complaining that there are not enough books with uplifting messages, Dundee clubwomen go in for exhaustive analyses of novels, one member charting the plot, a new member describing the setting, and a veteran speaker discussing the philosophy. Clearest proof of Omaha literary...