Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country. I did not have a single hour's exercise all the time, nor a single change of underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners get $1.50 a day per head...
...most sizable U. S. cities, the policemen at traffic stops or walking their beats in residential districts make a practice of accosting peaceful citizens several times a year and shoving forward a printed ticket in a purposeful way. The ticket often resembles, in color and size, the card that one gets for speeding, parking without lights or committing a nuisance. The citizen's relief is great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits...
...rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black clouds. The sea seemed infinitely large, while our little boat had shrunk in size since we left New York. At 4:30 a. m. heavy squalls struck us unexpectedly with terrific force and the wind, with a velocity of forty to fifty miles, made us heel over so that the gauge registered 25 degrees. The lee rail was buried under two feet of water...
Last week, the Democracy's chairman of finance, Banker Herbert H. Lehman of Manhattan, frankly announced that no limit would be placed upon the size or volume of contributions to the Smith campaign. The G. 0. P.'s Treasurer, Banker Joseph R. Nutt of Cleveland, immediately issued a revision of Chairman Work's $3,000,000 estimate. He mentioned $4,000,000 as a possible total and removed all idea of a limit to G. 0. P. contributions, individual or aggregate. He, too, referred to previous G. O. P. campaigns and said: "We have a harder fight...
...they may not expect dividends of any such size. Paternal Amadeo Peter Giannini, creator of Bancitaly, fears speculation in his stocks, dislikes inflated values, foresaw the bear raid which last spring brought Bancitaly crashing from 223 to a low of 100. At in, Wall Street holds Bancitaly sound, unlikely to suffer another shakedown...