Word: sizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comprehensive solution. Thanks to Mr. Harkness, they will be able to sub-divide their unwieldy undergraduate bodies into groups capable of functioning as social units. This implies a frank recognition of the value of that ephemeral something known as "college spirit"--and also a realization that increase in size has resulted long since in its practical extinction as a force unifying the whole student body. The same growth has killed its successor, "class spirit...
...size of the magazine is such as to give scope to its illustrations and text without crowding and to permit of the handsome margins characteristic of good bookmaking. About 14 x 11 inches, its dimensions are approximately the same as those of the Saturday Evening Post. FORTUNE'S covers, in place of the usual "process" reproductions in halftone, will be made for flat-color printing, will have the character of original prints...
About the same size was a Ludington "Sportship Senior," Gray-powered, designed by Outboard Racer Jake Dunnell...
...Lutheran Church's estimated world membership is 81 million souls. It is third in size to the Roman Catholic Church (estimated worldwide membership, 331,500,000; Orthodox Eastern Church, 144,000,000) among all Christian denominations. Leading Lutherans have long felt that the energies of their church, now dissipated by national boundaries, could be concentrated to better effect through a worldwide federation. Such an alliance was already projected under the name of the Lutheran World Convention in 1923. Last week when the National Lutheran Council held its annual meeting in Manhattan, the work of the Lutheran World Convention...
...dissolved minerals has formed great stalagmites and stalactites. In the "King's Room" stalactites hang like the iridescent folds, pleats and ruffles of a canopy. The monstrosity of Carlsbad Cave, however, is the "Big Room," half a mile long, 400 ft. wide, 348 ft. high. Sixteen airships the size of the Los Angeles could be housed therein...