Word: size
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany's Reuss-Gera Prison, one Schaarschmidt, deprived of tools, chewed his way out through solid oak bars. When captured his teeth were found mere stumps, his jaws ape-size...
...upon which the new country was built. For generations it served as a prime political issue. In 1836 Henry Clay, then a U. S. Senator from Kentucky, pointed with pride to "the prodigious sum of one billion and eighty million acres" of public domain (about one-half the present size of the U. S.). Prophetically he exclaimed: "Long after we shall cease to be agitated by the Tariff, the public lands will remain a subject of deep and enduring interest...
Three hundred thousand square miles is a lot of land. It is six times the size of New York State. It is bigger than Texas, Chile or Turkey. It is almost half the size of Mexico. It comprises 190,000,000 acres, enough for President Hoover to give one acre to every man, woman and child in the U.S. and still have enough left to do a wholesale real estate business. If it were worth $100 per acre-which it is not-its sale would wipe out the national debt. It lies in 16 "public land" States throughout the West...
...following table shows the comparative size of the Big Three by assets and by capital, the figures for Chase being as of the completion of the merger, for the others as of June 29. Capital of associated securities companies (whose undivided profits are not disclosed) is not included...
...Brisbane's memory is not always perfect. It was Alice herself who changed size, when she nibbled pieces of the Caterpillar's mushroom. The Cheshire Cat, constant in size, faded in and out of sight. tin this fable, the frozen snake came to, bit the Woodman...