Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mare Nostrum. When the British Home Fleet's flagship Nelson left Portland for Gibraltar this departure was officially described as "for one day's maneuver." Previously the Renown and the Hood and three smaller ships had slipped away so unobtrusively that those of their 6,000 officers & crew who happened to be ashore were recalled on a few hours' notice spread by flashing the order on cinema screens at Portland and circulating it among the pubs. In strict technicality the Admiralty's knowledge of exactly where the Home Fleet might be was locked in the resolute bosom of the fleet...
...heredity was found to be in the genes and chromosomes of the germ cells. The classic experiment in disproof of Lamarckism is to snip off the tails of generation after generation of newborn mice. If this acquired lack of tail could be inherited, the mice should be born with smaller & smaller tails; but the baby mice persist indefinitely in appearing with fine long tails...
...parceled out among twelve St. Louis banks. Presently Dr. Gerling became Superintendent. A small, perpetually busy man who moves from school to school at a nervous trot and waggles his grey Vandyke in short, sharp jerks, Superintendent Gerling saw his fear come true early in 1933. Two of the smaller State banks in St. Louis failed, tying up $96,000 in school deposits. Promptly Dr. Gerling pledged $25,000 of his own savings to make up any possible loss and "prevent the children from losing faith in their elders who encouraged the savings...
...other likely places. From them he learns how different firms are run, and what men in various types of business have to say of current economic conditions. You run into every situation, for the CRIMSON is faced with just the same problems as any concern, though on a smaller scale...
...houses two swimming pools, three basketball floors which may be converted into tennis courts, boxing, wrestling, fencing rooms as well as locker accommodations for over 2,500 people. The pools are 75 feet by 40 with a depth ranging from 7 to 11 feet and a smaller practice pool 40 by 25 with a depth of from four to five feet...