Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...largest section weighs three and one half tons; the smaller cap which will be raised near the end of the week, when the boom is fastened to the new section, weighs one and one half tons...
...small colleges, entirely separate units, each with its own autonomous faculty. This device is intended to foster an esprit de corps among the students by making them "one in purpose and understanding in the midst of all their differences." The faculty, Dr. Meiklejohn claims, will be improved by being smaller and more coherent, and in closer contact with the students. His experience has led him to believe that this plan will improve the instructors as much as the students...
...according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely subterranean, strung like pearls along almost her entire land frontier from the English Channel to the Mediterranean. Subways connect large key forts with smaller posts so that men and munitions may be rushed from fort to fort beneath the poppies of a smiling countryside...
...fish out of the net is no easy job. If you take your hands out of the water for more than a second they will freeze solid. The only way is to take the cartilage of the fish's nose in your teeth, squeeze his body to make it smaller, and yank him out of the meshes. All the time the hands must be kept under the water. The Eskimo method is to dangle a small ivory fish with a hook on it. By this means they catch four or five fish a day at the ice hole. We hope...
...Englishmen, the sardine is a pilchard (Sardina pilchardus), poor cousin of the English Herrings. Mediterranean peoples eat a smaller sardine (Sardina pilchardus sardina). Japanese, Chileans and Boers eat the Sardina sagax. Southern Australians and New Zealanders eat the Sardina neopilchardus. But in the U. S. any small fish of the herring family is a sardine, provided it comes in a can. Official U. S. attitude on the sardine question was clarified last week by Dr. A. C. Hunter of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Said he: "Members of the herring family classed as sardines include not only the true sardine...