Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only two or three rival colleges a year. Under such conditions the administration of amateur rules is simplified for those to whom their enforcement makes any difference: the limited number in a league makes possible the application of its rules to its members. But in leagues of unwieldy size this salutary effect hardly exists and in this financial consideration, of the number of paying contests each year, is the connection of professionalism and gate-receipts...
...stock arguments of the advocates of a big U. S. navy is the damage that would be done to U. S. industry if a hostile fleet should reduce the Manhattan skyline to a horizontal position. Statistics indicating somewhat the size of this damage were last week released by the Manhattan Merchants' Association, Quoting from the 1927 Federal Census of Manufacturers, the Merchants' Association stated that in 1927 factories in New York City produced 9% of the total U. S. 1927 output. New York factories turned out nearly six billion dollars' worth of merchandise. Production of the entire...
...been much clarified by the recent statement from University Hall that the Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...
...Business School seems to be following the course of wisdom in limiting the number of the entering class for next year. Of course the present size of the facilities across the river directly necessitated the decision but there are other considerations which might well impose restriction on too rapid growth. Sound growth takes time as well as careful direction and the business of assembling a faculty of capable men cannot be carried out in a year or two. There must be time for seasoning and the consolidation of present gains before a program of continuous expansion may be looked...
...team, under the tutelage of Captain F. D. Sharp, will practice the major part of the time on the new field back of the Business School; but as this field is a little under official size trips will be made to Myopia and the Forbes Field in Dedham...