Word: sizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point of desperation. He went immediately to Washington, secured permission to take another eyesight test. Then he visited an employment agency, asked for a young man "to help run a gas station." From likely candidates he selected Paul David Schooler, a youth of 19 not unlike himself in size and appearance. He gave Schooler $15 and a careful explanation. Next day, a youth calling himself Henry Sherwin Rupp appeared at the Navy Department to take a re-examination in vision for the U. S. Naval Academy...
...hope you buy fish of the same size be cause I am tired of seeing big fish swallow up the lature." little ones, especially in the Legislature...
McCall's, third largest in size of woman's magazines, has in recent years been a fast-growing profitmaker for its owners. Profits give publishers ideas. Last week McCall Co. decided to acquire control of Consolidated Magazines Corp., publishers of the fiction monthlies Red Book (circulation, 791,219) and Blue Book (165,903). Louis Eckstein, "the man behind Ravinia,*" president of Consolidated, required 25,603 shares of McCall stock, valued at more than two million dollars, to consummate the deal...
...McCall's competitors, five are outstanding in the mass-publication field. It is probably a fact that if the publishers should transpose their covers, few readers could distinguish one of the Women's Group from another. But there are differences of size, value and fine distinctions of policy. The big five: Ladies Home Journal (circulation, 2,538,412), Pictorial Review (2,523,384), Woman's Home Companion (2,274,657), Delineator (2,300,000), Good Housekeeping...
...psychological significance whatever. It is a great, coarse object in a debased Indo-Chinese style, representing a creature half-Buddha, half-mummy, bearing upon her knee a corpselike child of enormous size...