Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, dignified answers were no match for Drew's slashing style. Then St. Laurent unsheathed the Liberals' ultimate weapon: "The government is prepared to go to the people at any time on this issue." Only this week did he start cutting George Drew down to size...
...began to change around St. Albans. The school kept strictly to its Episcopal curriculum: daily chapel, courses in Christian ethics, sacred studies, and a thorough study of the Old and New Testaments. But the beltings stopped, and no one tried to run away any more. St. Albans doubled in size (351 students), became the top boys' prep school in Washington, where the sons of diplomats and Senators went...
...living members of Battery D had taken off. Tommy Murphy was there, jaunty and sharp in a double-breasted grey suit. Eugene Donnelly wore a silk hat. Frank Spina, Harry Truman's Kansas City barber, had a new silk guidon, three times regulation size, inscribed in gold with the names of the places where Battery D had fought: the Vosges Mountains, the Meuse-Argonne, Verdun. Four sleeping cars rolled eastward...
...which ties up a big subject in a compact package. Produced as a 16-mm. film at a cost of $28,000, this gentle study of a childhood tragedy has stirred such enthusiasm among preview audiences and potential exhibitors that it has been blown up to standard 35-mm. size and will be distributed nationally...
...Size of the awards to each scholar will depend directly on financial need. However, the selection of men to receive the scholarships will be made on the basis of aptitude for business training. In cases of great need the scholarships may cover the entire cost of a man's training for business administration. Awards are made on a yearly basis, subject to renewal if the student maintains a satisfactory record...