Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since every Bozo in the country has an opportunity in LETTERS to gripe or gloat over TIME's policy from size to the red border, may I take this opportunity to find fault with the dropping of the column PEOPLE...
...nearby Rome, Pope Pius XI prepared himself to receive an itinerant band of which he had heard: how it had sailed from Manhattan, via Panama, to Los Angeles, Yokohama, Shanghai, Siam, Egypt, Constantinople, Venice; how its members had studied manfully between excursions and receptions on shore; how its full-size college faculty had imparted learning, not only by lectures but by object and project lessons in the countries visited; how a daily newspaper was published aboard ship, edited by a onetime Governor of Kansas, Henry J. Allen, (TIME, Sept. 27). There was something pedagogically idyllic about the scene...
...Salon, teetered around a new motorcar. Salesmen studied its points: plenty of nickel plate; narrow, high radiator; low, elliptical lines; 8-cylinder, V-type motor; 125-in. wheelbase; six body types- roadster, phaeton, coupé, convertible coupé, victoria and sedan. It looked like a Cadillac slightly reduced in size. It was just that-designedly the "companion car to Cadillac." And, like the Cadillac, this new model is being built by President Lawrence P. Fisher of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. for General Motors. He is one of six brothers who, leaving their father's blacksmith shop in Norwalk...
Between 1913 and 1917 the average size of these laboratory brains was "quite constantly within ten cubic centimeters of 1,480."* In 1918 the Cleveland average fell to 1,410 c. c. "During that [War] year none but the veriest fool was left destitute; the others were all in the Army or earning good wages in civilian life. . . . In 1919, when industrial stagnation set in, the average brain volume of our social failures rose to 1,520 c.c. That looked serious to us and with great interest we read the prognosis of bankers and captains of industry regarding the future...
...house. I found a policeman, was able to identify one Charles Logan when he was captured. Said I: "I was lucky." Charles Logan had an ugly knife.'" Edward of Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under headlines: 'BETWEEN-DANCES FAGS MADE TO PLEASE WALES.' I have a midget cigaret case." Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole: "In Havana, the Gaceta de Policia displayed the picture of a face with notice of $2,000 reward for capture...