When King Saud visited Washington, the overwhelming question consuming the press was the size of his family.

The press was the first to issue printed books in the small octavo size, similar to that of a modern paperback, and like that intended for portability and ease of reading.

From 1973 on, editions were done on a four-color press with a different newsprint paper size.

In other countries, such as Spain, a small format is the universal for newspapers — a popular, sensational press has had difficulty taking root — and the tabloid size has no such connotations.

At first under intense interrogation, the suspects admitted only to their involvement in the McLaverty abduction but Nesbitt, seizing on McAllister's references to the size of a knife used on McLaverty, had his team of detectives press the case and eventually most of the gang admitted their part in the activities of the Butchers.

Sarah Lucas enlarged to a giant size a lurid tabloid press cutting ; she also exhibited a mattress with two melons, a bucket and a cucumber, representing female and male genitalia.

Foreign press reports in the West called the work " The Little Red Book " reflecting its common small size and bright cover, not without irony.

In the United States an offset press with a sheet size smaller than 14 x 20 " is classified as a duplicator.

During a press conference in the days after the shooting, the Long Island Rail Road Police Benevolent Association called the trains " unsafe " and said the railroad needed to triple the size of its 216-person police force.

Howl, in a sense, “ made ” City Lights, providing prestige almost unique for an independent press of its size.

Opposed by the British Bulldog Breed Council, it was speculated by the press that the changes would lead to a smaller head, fewer skin folds, a longer muzzle, and a taller thinner posture, in order to combat perceived problems with respiration and breeding due to head size and width of shoulders.

Hu expanded the paper's size and coverage, encouraged public criticism through letters to the editor, called for promulgation of a press law to spell out journalists ' rights, and introduced a sprightlier writing style.

The burst happened approximately 13 billion years ago, so a distance of about 13 billion light years was widely quoted in the media ( or sometimes a more precise figure of 13. 035 billion light years ), though this would be the " light travel distance " ( see Distance measures ( cosmology )) rather than the " proper distance " used in both Hubble's law and in defining the size of the observable universe ( cosmologist Ned Wright argues against the common use of light travel distance in astronomical press releases on this page, and at the bottom of the page offers online calculators that can be used to calculate the current proper distance to a distant object in a flat universe based on either the redshift z or the light travel time ).

Though around one tenth size of other newspapers printing local first-hand news reported by fresh journalists, its main news sources are actually the television, radio news, press releases and wired news.

While the modern equivalent of a private or personal secretary to the President of the United States would be more narrowly concerned with the care and feeding of the President, the small size of the White House staff at that point meant that Nicolay interacted with the press occasionally in carrying out his duties.

At a press conference when Yeats came to Liverpool, Shankly emphasised Yeats's huge size by inviting the journalists to " go and walk round him ; he's a colossus!

The show debuted on MTV UK and Ireland in November of that year, over the course of the series, it saw Busted's attempts to ' break ' America dwindle as interviews fell through and performances remained limited both in terms of audience size and press attention.

At the dry end sizing is usually applied with a size press.

The size press may be a roll applicator ( flooded nip ) or a blade type.

More importantly, due to extensive press coverage, it scored a propaganda victory out of all proportion to its size.

In the post-war years, ATF produced the Little Giant Automatic Cylinder Press, a smaller ( 12 " x 18 " sheet size ), more compact press of much more modern design than the Kelly presses.

The idea of smuggling a full size printing press into South Vietnam was mooted but determined to be too dangerous to attempt.

Lebanon's press became a huge industry despite the country's small size and has remained a haven for Arabic publishing.

The similarity between Mimas's appearance and the Death Star in Star Wars due to the large size of Herschel has often been noted, both in the press and in NASA / JPL press releases.

We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

the athlete of by-gone years who wears a size 46 suit and puffs when he has finished a sentence of any length then, it is time to break it up and move on.

The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

It is brought to packing houses, cleaned and graded as to size and quality, and packed in protective excelsior.

Their cost is not beyond the hopes of the American pocketbook, the range being about $150 to $1,000, depending on size.

Tire size can be determined in several ways but the one that is the easiest and as accurate as any is by measuring the effective radius of a wheel and tire assembly.

When tire size is measured in this manner a constant of 168 is used in the formula.

To determine car speed for a given combination of engine speed, gear ratio, and tire size, the formula is: Af.

Therefore, the lumber is bought in planks and ripped to size for battens, etc., on a table saw.

The safest procedure is to let your builder estimate the size of the unit you need, rather than trying to do this yourself.

It is usually helpful to make a sketch map in the field, showing the size and location of the features of interest and to take photographs at the site.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

As mass dealer and distributor organizations grow in size, there is every reason to expect them to try to share in the manufacturer's as well as the distributor's profits -- which is, in effect, what the sale of private brands tends to do.

When a customer asked for alligator shoes, she said, `` What size is your alligator ''??

However, the conversion from mass to size is unreliable, since many photographic meteors give evidence of a fluffy, loosely bound meteorite structure with densities as low as Af.

The relationship between particle size and infectious dose is illustrated in Table 1.

Almost equal in size to a honeybee, A. armata is much more beautiful in color, at least in the female of the species: a rich, velvety, rusty red.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.