Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average height of the 1931 crew is six feet, one inch and the average weight, 176 pounds. S. W. Swaim '31, the stroke, will serve as acting captain...
...Koko fell into the ditch head first and Amber-wave, one of the favorites, fell after him. The rest were all closely bunched with Billy Barton, Darracq and Bright's Boy out in front. The eighth jump is the Canal Turn, a thorn fence five feet nine inches high with a six-foot ditch on the take-off side and an 18-inch guard rail in front of the ditch. Eighteen horses fell as if a machine gun had been playing on the top of the fence. Horses without riders galloped off in the mist following...
...fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed another star by its side, some astronomers proclaimed that the star had split in two. English and American astronomers were skeptical. Splitting a star in two would require an impact from without or an explosion from within of a force unthinkably great...
...nations which have adopted the metric system. It was found that only two older units of measure were in common use in any of these countries. In the Balearic Isles the inhabitants still use the old Spanish ounce, and in parts of Germany the old Rhenish inch is still used in lumber measurement...
...undoubtedly wasting away as it radiates energy." For each square inch of the sun's surface, it radiates enough energy to keep a fifty-horsepower engine going. This goes on century after century...