Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...master of ceremonies at a seaplane and motorboat regatta last week. He stood on the dock, signalled for the start, uttered a cry of sudden pain. A burning wad from the little brass cannon, used as a starting gun, had penetrated his left leg to a depth of one inch...
...Isaiah Bowman, Col. Claude Hale Birdseye, Samuel W. Boggs, erudite scientists, left for the International Geographic Congress at London with one burning purpose : "To prepare a map of the world with a scale of 16 miles to the inch." Their ship, the Leviathan, celebrated its sixth anniversary crossing...
While a person's actions are being recorded by the camera, his words (or songs) are caught by a microphone and sent through an amplifier. In the Movietone, these captured sound waves are changed into light variations which are recorded within the camera on a one-tenth-inch strip down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind...
...fundamental issues Daily, the Republican press would chronicle the piscatorial teats of Messrs. Hoover and Curtis, while the Democratic newspapers would retaliate with even more meticulous accounts of the day's catch of their protegees Pike for pickeral, trout for salmon, the battle would be fought bitterly every inch...
When the station is in full operation, at least six telescopes will be used in South Africa. In addition to those for which new mountings are being supplied, there will be the 13-inch Boyden telescope, especially suited for planetary studies and for the newer types of spectrophotometry, inaugurated in recent years at the Harvard Observatory; an eight-inch photographic lens for work on standard magnitudes and variable stars; and a three-inch "policeman" which will steadily maintain the Harvard patrol on all of the southern sky. In addition there are two or three lenses that will be in occasional...