Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ragweed began to ripen and send its pollen (ten billion grains to the plant) into the air last week. In consequence, some two million peculiarly sensitive residents of the U. S. began to snuffle & weep with their annual attacks of hayfever. New York City, Chicago and smaller communities hired men to pull up every stalk of ragweed within city limits. For one day's pulling Chicago paid 25? and a ticket good for a week's room & board in a charity shelter. Sales of home air filterers perked up. If his sleeping quarters are free from dust...
...pupil also grows smaller when the eye scans something at short range, expands when the eye looks at distant objects...
...Jacksonville, N. C., a depositor lugged 120 Ib. of cash to the Bank of Onslow. Cashier James Collins spent two days counting $800 in coins smaller than 25¢ pieces...
...Prussia and Germany last week, suppose the U. S. was composed of 17 instead of 48 states, of which one state, say New York, stretched from Maine to Montana and far into the South, and contained over 50% of the population, with a state police force only a little smaller than the regular Army. Suppose New York City was the capital of this state and of the nation and suppose that of the other 16 states only two were of any importance; a southern, Catholic, reactionary state, still talking Secession, representing Bavaria, and a central, industrial state representing Saxony. Then...
Because Sir Henry's name is one of the greatest in railroadom, his resignation a great Canadian event, little was said last week of the smaller, quieter man who succeeds him?Samuel James Hungerford ("Sam" to a few friends, "S. J." to most), 60, for nine years vice president in charge of construction, operation and maintenance. His railroad career covers 46 years. It began just one year after Canadian Pacific spanned Canada, when he became a machinist's apprentice on Southeastern Railroad, which was later absorbed by CPR. In 1901 he was sent west from New Brunswick to be locomotive...