Word: sizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budget of the U. S. is a green-bound volume about the size of a telephone book for a city of two million and contains about as many figures. Prepared under the President's personal supervision, it details to Congress, which is under a moral but not legal obligation to follow it, the estimated sums of money required to operate the Government. U. S. officials appear before the House Appropriations Committee-in secret session-to explain and justify their cash allotments. Any such official who dares ask Congress for more money than the Budget allows him violates the Budget...
...University basketball team which will face Boston University in Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock in the first clash of the season is small in size, but fast and shifty. B. U. will probably have a considerable advantage over the Crimson in height but the Harvard team looks smooth and aggressive with a great deal of speed...
...giving the names of symphony orchestras which started their season of programs last week, you omitted the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Professor Brown of Harvard called it a "national model" for cities of this size...
...museums is a matter of daily and just comment. Moreover, the prevalent jumboism encourages capricious, ill advised exhibition . . . to adorn . . . great spaces. . . . When I first saw the Pennsylvania Museum, it contained the queerest hall I ever visited. . . . The hall of small personal bequests . . . filled with small showcases of ... uniform size each containing the artistic remains of some patrician lady of Philadelphia ... a cashmere shawl or a Spanish mantilla ... a pooi filigree box from Genoa, a bad Indian bronze or two..a few mediocre miniatures ... an enameled snuffbox of doubtful period. . . . This case is a parable...
...alliance is concerning itself. At Princeton the Utility and desirability of an undergraduate center is under discussion. The situation is in some respects similar to that of Harvard. The widening gap between clubmen and nonclubmen makes for the same sort of disintegrating influence as is here ascribed to unwieldy size and minute division into cliques...