Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under its terms the House would keep its present size-435 members-and readjustments of representation would be automatically made by the executive branch of the government on the basis of the new census figures, if the Congress failed to act promptly...
...asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums and have an endowment...
Presses whirred last week in the U. S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing, turning out a new 2? stamp. Standard size, standard red color, it will commemorate the golden jubilee of Thomas Alva Edison's electric light bulb (TIME, May 27). Design : The bulb, rays of light; the caption, "Edison's First Lamp...
...fourth year (1891) that "Pudge" Heffelfinger made his name a Yale football tradition. The Spring before he had been graduated by Sheffield Scientific School. He was then 23 years old, weighed 204 pounds, was 6 ft. 2¾ in. tall and wore a size 10 shoe. His biceps measured 15?in. and he had an inflated chest expansion of 44 4/5 in. He had rowed on the Varsity crew, had been chosen his class president and its most popular member and had written a graduation thesis on the manufacture of boots & shoes...
...positions run high, ranging from $350 to $600. But the average musician out of work is not qualified for the job. Only men of highest calibre are equipped for the delicate work of recording for synchronized sound films. And the cinema studios are already beginning to cut down the size of their recording personnel...