Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stickers, about one-inch square, sold by the League in booklets of 20 for $1, carried the legend: "Protest against Marine rule in Nicaragua." They were to Liberals what Christmas stickers are to Christians-a greeting and an expression of opinion. Fifteen hundred of them had been sold before Postmaster Kiely took action...
...Skirts an inch or two longer by day, but sweeping much lower at night...
...southern New York state, a dairyman, his wife and their hired man stretched out their hands palm upwards, like suppliants, to Dr. H. P. Senftner, associate director of the state department of health. Their palms were covered with great ulcers, about one-half inch in diameter, one-sixteenth to one-eighth inch deep; the margins were irregular in outline and thickened. Dr. Senftner told the three to flip their hands over. The backs were covered with similar sores. One of the patients had the same sort of lesion on his face. All three had rather high fever, pain in their...
...electromagnetic waves. Those waves extend in a continuous series from wireless waves, which are 25 metres and more in length, through heat waves, light waves, ultraviolet waves, x-rays, gamma rays. X-rays give off gamma rays. Professor Compton measured them. One is a ten thousandth millionth of an inch long...
...Heavy metals, like lead, radium and uranium, have many electrons. In some elements some of the electrons pop away from their atoms. Such elements are radioactive. X-rays can make them pop away violently. When x-rays act so, Professor Compton learned, their wave lengths, thousand millionths of an inch long, change. Roughly, the picture is that of a rowdy butting people on a dance floor. Each time he bumps a dancer he loses a little of his energy; later he has strength enough only to jostle them; finally he goes aimlessly away...