Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beefy, six foot four inch center named Jim McFadden is, by virtue of his size--a department in which the Crimson is dismally deficient, the chief Weapon which Newman will roll into the blockhouse. Big men who literally overpower Harper's economy size players under the boards have always been a source of difficulty to the '52 quintet...
JOEL ROME '51 brandishes a woman's leg. The stocking is of sheer silk and medium length, size nine. The leg lost Rome during the Dartmouth game and just got back...
Landscapes in G. Initial letters swelled to full-page size and came to enclose miniature paintings sometimes as detailed as murals. Within one huge blue and rose G, an artist had drawn St. Francis kneeling to receive the stigmata (see cut). Gradually the illustrations were separated from the text, and sometimes they almost supplanted it-so that bumpkin barons and illiterate lords could "read" their books like comic strips. They had no trouble identifying each character; the beasts were beastly, the saints saintly, and the maidens maidenly...
Aged (85), ailing Joseph Palmer Knapp and his Publication Corp. (Alco-Gravure, Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.) control This Week. But on editorial affairs, says Nichols, "I have to please 24 bosses"-the editors of the subscribing newspapers (which pay $10 to $15 per 1,000 copies, depending on the size of the supplement, and share its profits, around $3 per 1,000 circulation in 1948). To please them, he shuns anything controversial...
Metals. Copper, zinc and lead may become even scarcer. The Munitions Board, which runs the U.S. stockpile of strategic materials, said it would step up its purchases of 68 critical items to bring the stockpile up to 39% of planned size. The $525 million authorized for purchases this fiscal year, said Board Chairman Donald F. Carpenter, had already been spent or contracted for, and Carpenter will ask Congress for another $310 million. The stockpile's eventual value...