Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Located on Massachusetts Avenue directly north of the Yard, the Hemenway of today has three levels, the lower two of which contain 12 squash courts. On the third level there is a main gymnasium which provides one large basketball court, two smaller ones, or three badminton courts, depending upon the demand from the men using the building. In addition, on the third level is a special exercise room where volley ball or badminton may be played...
Uprooting all vegetation, burying all life in its wake, the avalanche ploughed through rich plantations, removed whole hamlets from the face of the island. Few in the wall's path had time to escape. Injured victims of previous smaller slides were caught, their legs and arms torn from their bodies by the onrush of debris. A corps of carpenters constructing wooden coffins saw a mass of mud moving down a valley, were themselves buried alive. Mothers tried to herd their young to safety as the slithering ground under their feet swept whole families to death. One seven-acre area...
...simply a matter of mechanics. If we treat the baby as a passenger and the mother's pelvis as the passageway, a larger passenger will have more difficulty coming into the world than a smaller passenger. Therefore, oversize infants are more apt to cause difficult labor...
Athletic Director T. Nelson Metcalf--"The University of Chicago is systematically lightening its football schedule. This, I think, is the best solution to the problem of Chicago's consistent gridiron defeats. But if the University administration thinks that schedule in which the team plays smaller schools of their own athletic calibre is harmful to public relations, I do not look with disfavor upon the abolition of intercollegiate football...
Promptly Chairman McNinch took to the air over NBC, CBS, MBS networks, denied that his reorganization was a purge. Most emphatically he denied making the wisecrack attributed to him, quoted himself as saying instead that "thousands of men with families are living on salaries smaller than that...