Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just two inches taller than his 57-inch billiard cue, Kinrey Matsuyama casts a giant shadow upon the green-baize background of billiards. Two years...
...yacht Saunterer, at anchor by a Florida key, a motor launch chugged away last week and nosed out northeastward across eight miles of wind-roughened water to the Gulf Stream. Perched high in a wicker armchair astern was Herbert Clark Hoover, a floppy hat shading his eyes, a three-inch starched collar prodding his digastric muscle...
...special type of small hard-hitting battle-cruiser, which may or may not cause revolutionary changes among naval architects. The vessel 9,000-ton displacement, is driven at 26 knots by 50,000 h. p. Diesel motors. (U. S. cruisers are to speed at 33 knots.) It mounts eleven-inch guns (U. S. cruisers eight-inch). Solid-hulled, without rivets, it costs...
Nearly all astronomical investigations are now made by means of stellar photographs, of which there are 300,000 filed away in the stacks of the Harvard Observatory. Beginning as an experiment in 1850, when the first photograph of a star ever obtained was taken with the "incomparable" 15-inch telescope, starting anew in 1885 after the invention of the dry plate, the Harvard Collection of celestial photographs is the most complete in the whole world. Southern stars not visible in Cambridge were photographed in Arequipa, Peru, from 1891 to 1926, when the station was removed to Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...such matters in the Herald. An example: "As I was leisurely pursuing my business, yesterday, in Wall Street . . . James Watson Webb came up to me . . . commenced fighting with a species of brutal and demoniac desperation characteristic of a fury. My damage is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow...