Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because of its high price per share. Stocks selling at $500 or more are members of the "500-Club." Case joined the "500-Club" on Friday, when a 3-inch strip of ticker tape showed amazed brokers these quotations...
...News Department men compete for the highest point average, one half point an inch being given for "assignments" and one point an inch for "scoops" or stories which candidates get on their own initiative. Men interested in Special University organizations may petition to cover these activities or sports, for example, the debating team or hockey. Every effort has been made to eliminate superfluous office routine and make the competition interesting...
...lava advanced inch by inch. As it slid forward it cooled and made a wall which checked the lava behind it. Sometimes this wall slowly mounted to a height of 50 feet...
Dope. Eastern games were played last week in wet weather which made the ball as hard to hold as a small and angry pig. Columbia held Cornell for downs on the one inch line. Kenneth Provincial beat New York University for Georgetown by scuttling 87 yards for a touchdown. The population of Blair, Ohio, sat in the stands at Columbus, wearing ribbons and buttons, to watch Native Mike Miles of Princeton help score on Ohio State...
Obliquely interesting to the light physicists at Washington was the California Institute of Technology's decision to build a 200-inch telescope near Mount Wilson. The present Mount Wilson apparatus has a 100-inch reflecting mirror. The new one, to be done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack...