Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found that he talked more freely, smiled more benignly, looked a little less plump, a little less wrinkled about the eyes than when he had left the White House. If he had any regrets on revisiting the scenes of his political triumphs' he muffled them under a flow of small-bore conversation...
Cooperatives Only. In the U. S. are some 6,500,000 farmers, of whom 2,000,000 belong to 12,000 different cooperatives large and small. The Board's policy presaged about 1,000 cooperatives composed of all husbandmen. No farmer outside a cooperative will receive any assistance from the Board...
While U. S. automobile men were planning small cars, an English automobile man was announcing the invasion of the U. S. market with a small English car. The invader was Sir Herbert Austin; the car the Austin Seven. The Austin will be manufactured at Butler, Pa., by a U. S. branch of Austin Motor...
...Austin represents the first serious foreign attempt at competing with the U. S. motor car. Said Samuel H. Vallance: "We are not proceeding with the theory that there is anything faulty with the American small cars. . . but in size and economy of operation the Austin Seven is in a class by itself...
Earth's atmosphere is only seven to eight miles thick. Aviators have been able to reach the top and hover there a few moments. Outside is the tenuous stratosphere, about 70 miles thick. Man has not entered that yet, although small balloons bearing measurements have done...