Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flourishes. And certainly the News platform does not point to the contrary. No longer can American colleges rely solely on the past. What faces educators of today is to provide for the students of tomorrow. "Bigness is no measure of greatness and we believe that Yale college's numerical size with all the liasons which bind the college to "Sheff" and the freshman year is the factor which disintegrates the undergraduate public opinion and makes a house that is divided against itself." The proposal to sever the year-long relationship would at least clean that house which, as the News...
...just over the border. U. S. Steel Corp. last year spent $25,000,000 in Pennsylvania, $20,000,000 in the Indiana-Illinois district; and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. built in Michigan; American Rolling Mill Co., in Kentucky. "There has not been a single new basic industry of any size located in Ohio for three years," declaimed Secretary Chandler. Ohio must lower taxes...
Citizens of Portland, Ore., flocked to see a curious creature publicly exhibited by one Arthur Kingery of Wapato, Wash., who said he had captured it in his chicken-yard. It was a cat, thrice the size of a house cat, with a tail heavy and furry, like a coyote's. On each side of its spine, beginning just back of the shoulders, grew a pair of muscular ridges, for all the world like two pairs of rudimentary wings, furred heavily. The feline's hind feet measured five inches, spreading out like the feet of a snow-shoe rabbit...
This for one trail. If one associates himself with a trail system of any size, he will find so many problems and matters of interest that they will exclude every other activity if given rein. The lore and the lure of the trail are equally endless. The write can testify that one may spend years on the matter of trail signs, always finding it interesting and always learning something new. For no one yet knows the best type of sign for trails...
...abstract question may, it it true, stimulate individual thinking on the part of debater. It may even hold more interest for an audience than a standarized resolution having to do with a worn-out, concrete subject that has acquired no new aspects. But it will hardly increase the size of the audience. The Student seems to think that the type of question it cites is entirely new, and will revolutionize debating. "Debating promises to have a future," the editorial declares with an optimism which we imagine will be rather speedily disillusioned...