Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police also reported that their investigations indicated a second uprising was planned by the Nazis, whose real leader, a mysterious Chief "X," was still at large. While police hunted Chief X and numerous missing Nazi members, the Chilean Congress decided to increase the size of the army, buy modern military equipment...
...Fifth International Congress for Applied Mechanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggested a way to improve propeller performance in the substratosphere: bigger propellers, designed to take bigger bites of air to make up for slower turning speed. For a starter they suggested 20-foot propellers, nearly twice the size of the largest...
...pouch the youngsters stay for about 55 days, attached to their mother's body by the swelling of her nipples, too big for their tiny mouths to release. When they have developed to the size of a mouse they crawl about her body, with frequent visits home. Thirty days later, fully developed in everything but size, they leave home for good; but not until three years have passed do they reproduce their teaspoonfilling kind...
...German character not only craves size, but loves neatness. The 1,500,000 Germans who rally at Nürnberg each year could not possibly be housed or hold their mass festivities in the town itself (normal pop. 450,000). As a result, in the past five years a titanic Parteitag Geldnde, or party grounds, has been in the process of construction, in what used to be Nürnberg's Luitpold Park (see map). The area is larger than that of the old walled town...
Into an auto dump at Bournemouth, England, one day last month drove a motorist looking for a spring for his automobile. After three hours' search he discovered one the right size, returned to his car to find that another spare-part hunter had dismantled his engine looking for a flywheel...