Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fewer Delegates. Some 1,000 voting delegates made the trip to Seattle. Buying their tickets?for the N. E. A. does that, at excursion rates?is a problem that requires thought and appropriations each year. In view of the unwieldy size of the gathering and of a need for more intensive deliberations, Superintendent P. H. Claxton of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that next year's voting delegates be reduced to a band of 500, plus officers; representation to be in ratio with N. E. A. state memberships. The convention pondered his idea...
...explained: "Under the Trent method the coal is finely ground, wet with water and then violently agitated while fuel oil is run in. The coal particles gather into globules the size of French peas, while the ash is suspended in the water and run off. The coal becomes a putty-like amalgam which is then shaped and baked in the form of small briquettes. The fuel oil is mostly recovered...
With its volume of 6,500,000-cubic feet of gas, the new dirigible will be more than twice the size of the Los Angeles. At 50 knots it. will have a cruising range of 12,500 miles; it can make up to 70 knots (80 miles an hour) though at the higher speed its cruising range is, of course, shortened. Larger than any British or German dirigible now planned, it will carry a crew of 45 men. Details as to the number and size of its guns and as to how its airplane convoy can return to it after...
...thought," said Viscount Saito smoothly, "that the ratio on capital ships should necessarily be extended to auxiliaries." This first point was in itself a polite negation of U. S. aims at the Parley; but the second point squarely supported the British thesis, thus: "The British proposal for reducing the size of capital ships and extending the age limit undoubtedly has merit, proving that it will contribute in no small measure toward the diminution of naval expenditures...
...cannot attempt to foretell China's future, but certain facts are evident at this time: 1) The revolution's deep-rooted permanent effects are changing the political and social characteristics of the people; 2) There will probably be several governments in China for a long time, as size and complexities impede rapid unification; 3) It is of no advantage for foreigners to attempt to impede the revolution or to interfere with the normal development of any one of the various governments by not recognizing it or recognizing only its opponents; 4) Nanking, possessing the wealthy background of Shanghai...