Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a down-to-the-hearthside preamble explaining Britain's economic plight, Sir Stafford came to the sensational core of his message: Britain was devaluing the pound from $4.03 to $2.80. Even to those experts who were dead sure that devaluation was coming, the size of the cut (31%) was breathtaking...
Ringsiders were left to wonder what would happen next time Graziano fought someone his own size. Fusari, a welterweight who is twelve pounds lighter than Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Rocky, had made his heavier foe look ridiculous for most of the first nine rounds. Some of Rocky's haymakers missed by feet, not inches. In the second round, he missed a right so awkwardly that he landed on the seat of his pants-with a slight shove from Fusari. For playing the role of punching bag, and almost upsetting the dope, talented, clean-living Charlie Fusari collected...
...York since he was banned in 1946 (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer), Roughhouse Rocky regained his old form as the best drawing card in fightdom. He will probably continue to be until the day he is foolhardy enough to fight a good man his own size-somebody like Sugar Ray Robinson...
...operator pushes buttons alongside the standard typewriter keyboard of the desk-size machine to select the desired type size and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
...striking thing about Feikema's hero Thurs Wraldson, a poor boy from an orphan farm, was his great size. As he began his studies at Christian College and Seminary in Michigan, "all human life, all its habits, its mores, was against him. The doors and the bathrooms and the beds and the clothes." The petite coed of his choice turned him down; his grip was a menace to life & limb, and after one embrace of his "massive passion," she had to call the doctor...