Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid to hold his floating island to its anchors. Those anchors are to be huge round bobbins which will dig into red clay of the submerged plateau and hold the seadrome from drifting. By next fall and before Bermuda's 1930-31- tourist season...
First problem was the courtroom's seating capacity. Solution: Carpenters banged and hammered, put up a six-tier bleacher, collected $417. Cross-pieces of white pine, at 16-inch intervals, marked off the benches into 86 numbered seats. Each prisoner had a number corresponding to his seat so that a roll could be called and absentees quickly detected. Lawyers for the defendants vainly objected to the cramped quarters of their charges...
...wish of "may the best team win" was fulfilled Saturday afternoon, for the 20 to 20 score accurately indicates the margin of supremacy which separates the Harvard and Army football teams. With a record-breaking crowd jammed into every available inch of space within the Stadium, the Crimson and West Point elevens battled to a standstill in a spectacular, savagely-fought clash...
Coincident with his 47th birthday last week, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark University rocket inventor (TIME, July 29), disclosed his invention of a sun engine. His laboratory model consists of a parabolic mirror one foot in diameter, which focuses sunlight upon a hollow glass sphere five-eighths of an inch in diameter. The sphere contains water and finely divided carbon. The focused light passes through the clear water without heating it. But when the light strikes the opaque carbon, the carbon heats almost instantly and in turn heats the water, which turns to steam. The steam escapes through a hole...
...roughly 88,000 tons. In the more ticklish category of cruisers the U. S. is asking 315,000 tons and Britain 339,000 but this too is supposed to represent "parity" because the U. S. cruiser fleet will have a larger proportion of heaviest 10,000-ton, 8-inch cruisers than the British...