Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Serbia had been expanded into a nation twice its original size as a result of the post-War treaties and plebiscites, which gave Serbia Montenegro, the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the semiautonomous region of Croatia and other generous slices of Hungary. The population was thus trebled (to 15,000,000) and all the south Slavs (Yugoslavia means "land of south Slavs") were united. Yugoslavia became, after Rumania, the second largest Balkan State (area: 96,000 square miles...
...Sachs is working on colchicene, a substance which will prevent the cell walls from forming during the reproductive process. This means that the nuclei will be twice as large since the nuclei of two adjoining cells will fuse together and the doubled number of chromosomes doubles the size of the plant...
...present there are in the Biological green-house plants double the normal size which growth Dr. Sachs has been noting...
Hundreds of dollars, including many gifts of substantial size, have been contributed toward the fund to support refugee students at Harvard next year, according to an announcement of the Harvard Refugee Committee...
Against the judgment of his superiors. Secretary Emmons had 100,000 copies of The Upper Room's first issue printed by the Southern Methodist Publishing House in Nashville, Tenn. They were sold in no time. By last week this pocket-size quarterly (10? to 50?, depending upon binding) had broken all records in U. S. religious publishing. No 1938 issue had run under 1,000,000 copies. The winter issue, out last week and advertised as suitable for Christmas greetings, will reach 1,250,000. Altogether, nearly 10,000,000 copies have been sold...