Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, mild man who likes bow ties and baseball, Professional Stranger Stewart sprinkles his columns liberally with names, reports on the collection plate, the size of the "house," and the number of times that the congregation stands, sits and kneels. (At the Unity Evangelical Lutheran Church, reported Stewart, "it would be difficult ... to try to snooze" because everybody is always bobbing up & down...
...Eckley is back at the helm of another fine Amherst team, bent on spoiling today's Old Home Week festivities. The Jeffs play mostly schools of their own size (about a thousand students), which includes EIBL-leading Dartmouth. Amherst has beaten the Indians twice in the last two years. Its 1949 record...
...Coffee. Brazil has natural riches to match her size. Her great Volta Redonda steel plant-South America's largest-feeds off a quarter of the earth's known iron deposits, heavily concentrated in & around the fabulous "iron mountain" of Itabira. Brazil also has significant deposits of most of the other minerals useful to man. She ranks fourth among the world's independent nations in hydroelectric potential. Geologists estimate that oil-bearing formations lie beneath a quarter of her sparsely settled 3,286,170 square miles of territory...
...admire the animals ('an enormous love of animals is our principal motive') modified the equipment situation somewhat . . . There would be a few days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed . . . Rather than take a chance on finding in the African shops an exploring costume in her size (almost no ready-made clothes anticipate her doll-like proportions)," Mrs. Adrian bought them in Manhattan. For the trip up river she wore "an oyster-white silk Shantung suit made (where better?) in her husband's workrooms; and as an alternate for the skirt a pair of Shantung slacks...
...Committee on Admissions, which held its first screening meeting Saturday, will aim at an 1100 man figure for the incoming class in order to meet the Corporation's request for a peace-time College population of 4300. Future freshman classes will remain at this size, Bender said...