Word: size
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did Col. Arthur Wagner, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Military Intelligence, convey to Lieut. Andrew Summers Rowan the wish of President McKinley that he seek, in the jungles of Cuba, Lieut.-Gen. Calixto Garcia, insurgent Cuban leader, carry to him a McKinley message, ascertain the size and strength of Spanish forces...
Last week the Corriere changed its page size from among the smallest to the very largest in the U. S., 18¼ x 24¼ in., or ¼ in. wider and 1⅜ in. longer than standard...
...Tabloids" have come to be known, not for their handy size but for the low-matter most of them print...
...without humor, Editor Barzini described a little-suspected shortcoming of the tabloid-size newspaper. When the Corriere first started, he related, a laborer wrote in from Trenton, N. J., and said: "Your newspaper is beautiful and interesting and I like it very much, but it is too small to wrap my lunch in." Added Editor Barzini: "There was torn from our eyes the veil of the mysteries of certain newspaper circulations...
Editor Says Workingman's Complaint Led to Change in Size...