Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quaint instance of Swedish cunning was observed in London, last week, when several large coffins were unloaded from a ship from Sweden. The coffins weighed but little more than packing cases of the same size, contained Swedish matches, were sold after the matches had been unpacked...
...critical test of the season tomorrow. The third reason, and rather more important than psychology and coach, is the crew of eight oarsmen and a coxswain who will carry the Crimson colors at historic New London. The Harvard eight this year is pre-eminently worthy of confidence. The unusual size, strength and speed of its members we can understand, but there are other more intangible attributes suggested by the sporting experts by terms and phrases such as "flexible", "graceful", "minimum of effort", "smooth running" etc., which conveys an impression of something higher and finer than the mere drudgery of pulling...
...French Lake, Red Ridge, William Beaumont, Lake Drain, Alfred Nobel, Point Case, Christopher Wren, Glen Manor, Louis Pasteur, Cyrus Field, Edmund Halley?or any of 76 other names?doing small things for large people and quietly watching them, studying them, children and greybeards, ladies and gentlemen, to size them up in one of two Pullman-porters' categories...
...handling of it was largely responsible for his victory. But let us not be misled into thinking that this was the only cause. At the bottom of many political victories is the well-organized machine. And this too will not be seen in Washington. The machine, depending on the size of the candidate's campaign contributions and on the skill with which he handles the patronage in his district, is the broad foundation stone on which most office holders rest and which is seldom seen in Washington...
...last week Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon found a way of lessening expense without changing national customs. He announced that the dollar bills of the future will be considerably reduced in size. The present bill measures 7.7 inches by 3? inches. The new bill will measure QVs inches by 2? inches, therefore will be about an inch and one-half shorter and half an inch narrower. It will last longer because it will not have to be folded so much and each printing operation will produce 50% more notes. These two advantages of longer life and easier printing...