Word: width
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockne six, making its first public appearance, proved to be a trim little job with lines more like Plymouth's than Chevrolet or Ford. It can be recognized on the street by an R on the hubcap, a slightly slanted V-type radiator and the generous width of its glass panels. Its streamlined fenders will not be so distinguishable from its competitors this year as they would have been last. Prices: $585-$695 for the 66-h. p., 110-in. wheelbase model; $68s-$795 for the 72-h. p., 114-in. model...
...Columbia's Teachers College, last week propounded an accurate formula to figure any woman's proper weight. Height therein is far less important than chest measurements. The formula, which Dr.Boillin calls "the multiple regression equation," she verified by measuring 815 Wellesley girls. It is: 2.5014 times width of hips in cm. + 0.5245 times height in cm. + 4.6024 times depth of chest in cm. + 0.8954 times biacromial width* in cm. + 2.8644 times chest width in cm. - 209.2255 = proper weight in pounds for the particular woman...
...biggest railroad rate case in a decade. The thermometer outside on Pennsylvania Ave. stood at 98°. Everyone was in his shirtsleeves and a frank sweat. The mahogany paint melted from the metal chairs, stained many a pair of linen trousers. On the dais which runs the width of the room sat I. C. Commissioner Balthasar Henry Meyer, presiding, flanked by Commissioners Ernest Irving Lewis and William Erwin Lee, assigned to the case. Commissioner Lee kept himself cool by waving a silk fan. Sitting in on the case unofficially was Commissioner Joseph Eastman, most liberal and conscientious member...
Purdue's Van Bibber failed to kick goal after touchdown, and by the width of that point the Indiana underdogs went back to Bloomington crazy with glee. Indiana 7, Purdue...
...Woven Fabrics wholly or in chief part by weight of silk in the gum, not degummed nor bleached, not less than 20 inches in width, weighing not more than seven pounds for each 100 yards thereof, imported for the purpose of being degummed, dyed and finished in Canada: ["B. P."] /71%, ["Intermediate"] 30%, ("General...