Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Fall when the Harvard football team takes over Dillon Field House a new group of football enthusiasts takes over the Yard. From this new group comes the new football family: players, managers, and fans. Many newcomers find that lack of size or experience or some other handicap keeps them off the team. These are the men who usually enter the Freshman managerial competition...
...they prefer to stay in the Yard, some Freshmen will be forced to live in the outside dormitories. Under the present system of tripling up double suites, etc., the Yard can hold about 1200 men approximately the expected final size of the Class...
Heritage is so costly [$150 per year] because of its size, its use of color, its binding and high quality paper (necessary if the volumes are to stand up under many thumbings), its plating cost, its editorial cost...
...coast at Asbury Park, Mrs. Maria Monez Strohmeier ("Mrs. Philadelphia"), a 21-year-old blonde with green eyes, was crowned "Mrs. America." This entitled her to a fur coat, furniture, a dishwasher, laundry machine, luggage, and diaper service for any future children. Mrs. America was more nearly standard size...
...readers thought their prices were too high. The publishers, whose costs had soared 60 to 70% in two years, figured that their prices really should go higher. S. & S. reckoned that it made $800 in 1945 on a 10,000 copy printing of a $2.50 book. On the same size printing today it would lose $1,500-even though the book sold...