Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, "are rather pretty to look at once they are out -very similar to roughly rounded, uncut, semiprecious stones . . . [in] various shades of yellow, pink or green with red flecks. . . . Some may be microscopic in size, others as large as a hen's egg. And a patient may be suffering from just one large gallstone or from a thousand tiny ones...
...actually on the U. S. market. The Nash brothers (George Harlan, 28, and Carlton Snell, 26) of South Hadley, Mass. sell their Triassic wares not only to museums and universities, but also to strong-minded householders. Prices range from $4 to $30 or $40 per track, depending on size and depth...
Starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, Sewall followed the tracks of a huge elephant, knowing the size of the animal because its height is exactly twice the circumference of its footprint. In the middle of the afternoon he caught sight of his prey in ten foot elephant grass and drew a bead with his .256 rifle. The first shot hit between the elephant's oar and eye and as the animal crumpled to the ground, another tusker charged from the grass. A charging elephant is an impossible shot because of the thick skull covering the front...
...northern part of which belongs to Rumania, the southern part to Bulgaria. But the biggest and most fertile plain of all begins at the eastern slopes of the Carpathians and rolls eastward across the black soils of the Ukraine to the steppes east of the Sea of Azov. The size of this farm belt can be judged by the fact that the Black Sea beside it is about twice as long 25 Lake Superior. It compares in size to the combined area of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska...
...newly-mounted reptile, eight feet long and four feet high, belonged to a sterile branch of the early family which later gave rise to mammals and which is known to scientists as dicynodonts, or two-tuskers. The dicynodents ranged from the size of a rat to about the size of a small horse, and reached their greatest development in South Africa...