Word: size
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the youngster is given his toy, he is asked to estimate its size by pulling a metal rod out of the cylinder right before him. In almost all cases the child guesses the toy to be a bit larger than its three-inch length...
...process is repeated a second time, but after the youngster has guessed the new toy's size, he is suddenly not allowed to have it. The tester than asks his subject to estimate again the size of the toy he desires...
...Sensato is a pensive Argentine comic-strip character who specializes in simple solutions for everyday problems. Last week, while Buenos Aires was agog at the size of the visiting Phillips Oilers basketball team (Center Bob Kurland is 7-ft. tall), Don Sensato had this to say: "It occurs to me that the only way to win from .. . the tall ones ... is to play...
...part of this incessant struggle: most, if not all, of the little creatures that cause man's diseases have enemies nearer their own size which can kill them off with chemical weapons. The warfare among the bugs* is called "antibiosis," and the chemical weapons of war are "antibiotics." Searchers for new antibiotics figuratively let bug eat bug; then the medical men take over the chemical weapons of the microscopic battlers and use them against the enemies...
About 80 clubs are represented in the Council. Each club, regardless of size, sends five delegates. "What we have done," Jansen explained, "is to organize clubs in other colleges whose delegates will do whatever we want...