Word: smallest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decibel is a varying unit of loudness. It represents the smallest difference in the level of sound which the ear can detect. The decibel difference between the rustle of leaves (8) and whispering (11) represents small intensities of sound. The decibel difference between a motor truck (77) and an elevated train (81) represents tremendous energy...
...smallest Freshman Class in many years registered in Memorial Hall yesterday as 981 men began their careers at Harvard. With the addition of 56 transfer students, provisionally classified as Sophomores and Juniors, the total number of new students was only...
...editorial competitions for the CRIMSON next Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock will have ample opportunity to follow the most minute activities of Coach Harlow's teams on Soldiers Field. Seldom has Harvard presented such a wealth of interest as it does this fall when the final and smallest competitions for Juniors and Sophomores for the four boards of the paper get underway. Like Dick Harlow, Dr. Arlie Vernon Bock, the new health chief at the Hygiene Building, is giving the college a new deal in medicine...
Eight months after the stockmarket crash of 1929, the first American Austin scooted out of a factory at Butler, Pa. Copied from the immensely popular British Austin, it was 28 inches shorter than the smallest standard car, came up to a man's chin, cost $445 f. o. b. Butler. It ran 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline, achieved a speed of 50 m. p. h. Two strong men could lift it into any 10-ft. parking space...
...election up there until it was over." The other was President Roosevelt who wanted newshawks to believe that he had never heard of the Rhode Island contest until he saw newspaper headlines the following morning to the effect that the New Deal had taken a stiff drubbing in the smallest of states. Others less preoccupied were well aware of what was going on. The Press had properly foreseen it as a coming test of the New Deal. Rhode Island's Senators, Democrat Peter Gerry and Republican Jesse Metcalf, had both suspended operations in Washington to go home and campaign...