Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace and goodwill. Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, long an insurgent, exclaimed, "We will not go into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi-tion he took in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill (TIME, March 7). But the honor of his presence, the potency of his office, turned suspicion into acclamation as hostility succumbed to hospitality. Should South Dakota love the President in November as it does in June...
White placed third in the broad jump with an actual leap of 21 feet and a 4 inch handicap. Guaruaccia turned in a 45 foot 6 inch throw in the 16-pound shot put which with a two foot handicap gave him a second to one of the Medford High athletes who had a four foot advantage...
...last week Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon found a way of lessening expense without changing national customs. He announced that the dollar bills of the future will be considerably reduced in size. The present bill measures 7.7 inches by 3? inches. The new bill will measure QVs inches by 2? inches, therefore will be about an inch and one-half shorter and half an inch narrower. It will last longer because it will not have to be folded so much and each printing operation will produce 50% more notes. These two advantages of longer life and easier printing...
...constructive. In the second place, the results of an action are decided by umpires. In the New England game, for instance, the cruiser Concord was "sunk" by the battleship Pennsylvania. What happened was that the Concord, lightly armored, chanced to get in range of the Pennsylvania's 14-inch guns, remain in range for a time long enough (in the umpire's opinion) for the Pennsylvania to have sunk her in actual warfare. In the third place, the big guns are not actually fired. Every big turret gun has mounted upon it a small "subcalibre...
...inch shell statement was corrected by many a TIME-subscriber. TIME'S Naval correspondent said that guns of these calibre might be adopted in the future; the message was garbled in transmission...