Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past month the government seems to have abandoned a policy of aggression only a far as public opinion has pushed it, and not an inch further. The White House and State Department have, under pressure, made vague concessions to public opinion by agreeing to arbitrate in Nicaragua and Mexico. Very little that resembles a definite action has been taken, Perhaps the idea is that the baseball scandal or the idea is that the baseball scandal or a divorce case may draw attention from the Central American situation, and leave the government free to act us it sees...
When one Fred Love found a single organism, an inch long, with a saw tooth, on his farm in Kankakee County, Ill., the price of July corn on the Chicago Board of Trade jumped a cent a bushel last week. The hand of Farmer Love quivered as he wrapped the specimen, despatched it to the Department of Agriculture in Washington. In that tiny package was a noxious pest, the European corn borer...
Recent thaws have left an inch of water on the surface, and unless the mercury takes a sharp drop bfore morning, the game is likely...
...Athens, Greece, 300 years B. C., a woman suffered as did Mr. Phillips. Ancient doctors could not cure her. So she had a five-inch image of herself, with all her grotesque deformities, made in terra cotta to show the gods what had become of her and to supplicate their pity. In 1914 the figure was dug up at Athens...
Other marvels: 1) the "stickpin watch" of Nicholas II, thin as a dime and half its diameter, varying not one minute in a month; 2) a jeweled "orange tree," eight inches high, the leaves of emeralds, with ruby fruits, diamond flowers, the whole opening at the pressure of a button to display an enameled nightingale, singing and flapping its wings; 3) the plain gold and ivory rattle, ordered by sensible Catherine the Great for her children; 4) a gold stage-coach four inches long and an inch and a half high with a 20-carat diamond* cut like a lantern...