Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains that now creep slowly onward with the aid of two engines in front and a third...
...Band has been growing steadily in size and importance in the last few years. In 1926, there were only 60 members, in 1927, there were about 65; and this year there are almost 80. Seventy-two of these men played at the last Yale game, after having first dined at the Harvard Club of New York and heard a talk on the fine points of football by Coach Blake...
...will be put in one group as they applied. These large groups will be given preference over smaller ones. The applications will first be sorted according to the number of men in each group. The rooms will then be assigned by lot to different groups of the same size instead of by order of preference, the method employed formerly...
...Liberty guarantees a net paid circulation of 1,750,000; for the second six months 2,000,000. Bigger circulation means bigger paper bills; but the smaller page means smaller page bills; hence Liberty chooses a convenient moment for its change in format. "It will be the popular size," believes Liberty. "There is less room to waste on the library table...
Noah's Ark. Many and many a thousand that the Warners have amassed by beating their rivals to the screen with talking pictures (Vitaphone) they poured into this elephantine show. Perhaps they felt its worthlessness of story interest and sought to stun the public with its size...