Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most meteors are small, pea-size to walnut-size things that get their brilliance from their enormous speed. Only a few are big enough to reach the earth's surface before they evaporate. Once in a great while, a really big meteor smacks the earth with a vast concussion, digging an "explosion crater" like the one near Canyon Diablo, Ariz. Such craters are rare. Unless the meteor hits in an arid region, its dent is smoothed down quickly (in terms of geological time) by erosion and other natural forces...
...year ago, when Goucher went hunting for a new (and sixth) president, it found just the man it wanted, at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Balding, 47-year-old Otto Frederick Kraushaar had been teaching philosophy at Smith for 14 years. He liked Goucher just fine, both for size (he scorns mass "diploma mills") and for the fact that he'd still be teaching women ("If you educate a man, you educate an individual; if you educate a woman, you educate a family"). By last week, when he was inaugurated, Philosopher Kraushaar found himself facing a few problems unique...
...Wall Street Journal also admonished Big Steel: "There seems no reason why the sessions should not take place in a hall of sufficient size." Forbes Magazine Publisher B. C. Forbes also let fly: "The time is past when companies can get away with holding their meetings in damned inaccessible places like Squeedunkus or Hohokus . . ." In midweek, the stockholders' revolt gained a small victory. Continental Can Co., Inc., which has been holding its annual meetings in Millbrook, N.Y., a more than two-hour train & bus trip from Manhattan, announced that it would hold future meetings in its Manhattan headquarters...
...Dramatic Club was founded in 1908 for the purpose of presenting new plays written here by students. Even with a student body the size of the University's, it was, of course, impossible to find one or two original plays each year that were always worthy of production. Those play's which did seem of promise, but were unsuitable for local performance, were given a "reading" by the HDC, after ample rehearsals. Eventually, the Club began to present outstanding foreign plays which were being ignored by the Belascos and the Frohmans on Broadway. Since 1919, no undergraduate plays have been...
...ease more anti-inflation controls. The Department of Commerce lifted export controls from 500 items, including many foods and appliances which had become surplus. The Federal Reserve Board, for the fourth time in three months, eased credit restrictions. It reduced bank reserve requirements 1% and 2%, depending on the size of the bank-thus freeing about $1.2 billion extra cash for lending. But FRB's move was not likely to boost the volume of loans: businessmen had carefully cut their borrowing by $1.5 billion in the last 14 weeks...