Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...super-dreadnoughts of the U. S. Navy really spit 18-and 20-inch shells as reported in TIME, April 25, p. 8, col. 3 ? I have been out of touch with the Navy since the War but am of the opinion that 16-inch guns are the largest yet installed on our ships. However, more power to the Navy, and yourselves...
...Inch Guns...
...Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished...
...method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...
...sanctum last night. The teeming crowd that had gathered to give its last full measure of support to the nine men who seek to stave off Princetonian victory today, reached a high pitch of vociferous enthusiasm, as these words of determined confidence rang out through the jammed room. Every inch of available floor space was covered by the surging flood of humanity which over-flowed onto chairs, tables, mantlepieces, and bookshelves. Windowsills were converted into benches and the piano into a grandstand, while one determined enthusiast was even found up the chimney...