Word: size
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money they had to hold. The thousand lire note, worth about $1.75 this summer, was the size and consistency of a large piece of Kleenex...
...lads and signed on 20 more including a hulking 280-lb. Cajun tackle named Jerome Helluin. Frnka housed his athletes in the new $250,000 athletic hall across from the Sugar Bowl, fed them rare steaks and fined them when they broke his training rules. On the strength of size, reserve strength and a fullback named Eddie Price, Tulane was ranked No. 4 in the nation...
Kuiper is a serious astronomer who holds himself loftily above the little vanities of man. But his theory, which requires no rare catastrophe for the formation of planets, makes it much less likely that man is alone in the universe. The sun is an ordinary star, of very common size, temperature and chemical composition. If it has acquired planets in the normal course of its development, many millions of similar stars may have planets too. If so, there is a chance that high forms of life, perhaps higher than man, have developed on some of them...
...oriental potentate, the late Reza Pahlevi, Shah-in-Shah (King of Kings) of Persia, combined forthright admiration for Western social and industrial progress with a darkly suspicious opinion of the men who make it. As a result, he brought his 628,000-square-mile empire (about one-fifth the size of the U.S.) some mixed blessings. When the old Shah wanted railroads, for instance, he got railroads-but not always where his foreign advisers thought they would do Persia the most good...
Cobb's companion, whose name was withheld because of his age, was carrying a toy pistol. He was immediately released to his parents. Police thought that the pair's unusual behavior in the H.A.A. ticket office pointed to an attempt to size up the layout of the place before a holdup, rather than an actual crime...