Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Before a battery of microphones at the annual dinner of the New York County Lawyers Association, Governor Dewey advocated: calling up the entire National Guard forthwith; universal military service; de-mothballing the entire Navy; a draft step-up to give the U.S. 100 divisions, each nearly twice the size of Russian divisions; an Air Force of at least 80 groups...
...Ceilings. By late 1949, MacConnell had his new department, plus a headquarters "laboratory" of construction and equipment specimens, e.g.: 18 different types of ceiling, five types of flooring, and just about every shape and size of chair, table and desk a school might need. Meanwhile, MacConnell and his graduate students were busy answering calls for help...
...Paul Hume, a well-grounded student of music, had come to the widely shared conclusion that Margaret just "cannot sing very well." He wrote: "Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality. She is extremely attractive on the stage. Yet . . . there are few moments during her recital when one can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the end of the song...
Also included are the memorable Coop robbery, Lamont opening, John Harvard, and adviser cartoons. The cartoons are the thing, of course--Inside Harvard's excuse for being. The text is not bad; indeed it is indispensable, for the drawings are not all the same size and few of them fill a whole page...
Through the years FDR kept his interest in the paper. Gardner Cowles '25, head of Look Magazine and another former president of the CRIMSON, was summoned once from Des Moines to the White House when Roosevelt wanted to size him up. With FDR leading the conversation, they spent three hours discussing only the CRIMSON...