Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First National). It would have taken an actress to make convincing this scenario about a check-girl who pretends to be a debutante from Boston to win the love of a young man who pretends to be a millionaire. Alice White is not an actress. Alice White is a size-fourteen girl who looks like Clara Bow, but cuter; all eyes and no chin. She loses her bathing suit; she rides a horse for the first time; the rest is pretty stupid...
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) figured out a law which explained pretty well, but not perfectly, how those stellar bodies moved. One body, said he, attracts another body according to their mass (weight, size, momentum) and the distance which separates them. Such is the action of gravity...
THIS is a pocket-size edition of new drinking recipes and concotions to be tried on gastronomic systems already in a sad state, thanks to the Anti-Saloon League's practical joke on America...
...place of it I would have a number of colleges, all independent, at the head of each of which should be a master--if you like, a president. Those colleges should be so limited in size that individuality would be not only possible but a necessary part of the system. The master should know every student. Instructors and students should constitute a large household under several roofs and with common grounds independence and individuality under suitable restrictions should be the underlying motive...
...size of the affair is what makes it remarkable. Small teas in the dormitory rooms have occurred before with some frequency; but only five or six were present at these, in contrast with the startling number at this recent event. The proctors, although they were quite willing to give permission, admitted surprise and joined with others in wondering if this is to be precedent for the transfer to Cambridge of the famous Back Bay quantity production tradition...