Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subway rotunda in Harvard Square is about to be reduced to two thirds its present size. The Cambridge City Council has approved the plans for the alterations...
...Brag about your size! Why, we have bigger hogs right here on Long Island! And some of them have more sense...
...Berkeley Springs, W. Va., one Winter Unger butchered a hog; found two hearts, one normal in size, the other having attained the magnitude of a hen's heart...
...crowds spent much time and money, is president of the Bryan Memorial University Association. And in Manhattan, last week, newsgatherers discovered one of many local "drives" that are to be held to raise $5,000,000. The quota assigned to New York City was modest in proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged by one Malcolm M. Lockhart, onetime solicitor for the Near East Relief, who now styled himself "militant...
...Horace Greeley was a onetime schoolmistress who never learned to keep house. A contemporary thus described her: "Mrs. Greeley was a woman rather below the medium size, thin, with dark hair and eyes. She had thin lips, irregular and somewhat defective teeth. There was little expression in her face, but that little was rather against her. She spoke quickly?not peevishly, nor angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall...