Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cathedral for the classic ritual of Pontifical High Mass. Robed in their most gorgeous vestments, the assemblage of churchmen provoked manifestations of devout reverence. In front glinted the cross with a candle-bearer on each side. Then followed, seriatim, colorbearers, resplendent church flags, cherubic altar boys ranging in size upwards like steps, seminarians four abreast in black cassocks with white surplices. Last, preceded by pages and surrounded by a retinue of priests, marched the scarlet cardinals,* with purple-clad Prelate Bonzano dispensing blessings upon his genuflecting worshipers. Said Cardinal Hayes in delivering the sermon: ". . . . This magnificent edifice ... is in very...
...famed Quaker Oats Company of Chicago does not confine its knowledge of psychology to America. Realizing that worshiping Japanese ape their divinely-descended royalty, sagacious salesmen foisted puffed-wheat upon the slant-eyed public by a gift to the Crown Prince of an elaborately engraved box just the size of a carton containing three dozen packages of cereal. Exploiting Reputation. Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year. These men gained control...
...sculptors of the Periclean Athens, of whom Phidias was the greatest, must all be studied in copies. Roman workers, little more than capable.artisans, copied bronze in marble, marble in bronze; statues in the round were copied in relief; the size was reduced, even the proportions altered. Only two works of Phidias have been surely recognized in copies-the Athena Parthenos and the Olympian Zeus...
...judges this year were W. I. Nichols '26, R. H. Field '26, retired Presidents of the CRIMSON and H. M. Hart, Jr. '26, former Editorial Chairman. In judging the entries, mere size was not taken into consideration, the donors of the prize feeling that the news and editorial policy were of more account...
...House was concerned, they did not succeed. The bill was passed 219 to 127. In the Senate the bill will have very rough going because of the three contested provisions and its increased size. Its fate in this Congress is dubious indeed...