Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many lines to the inch in the "screen" used for newsprint half-tones...
...photographing the copy through a "screen", or criss-cross system of finely ruled lines. The closer together these lines are, the smoother and harder must the paper be that is to receive their result in ink. Thus, pictures in newspapers are made with screens having 60 lines to the inch; pictures on paper with an ivory-like finish have been made with screens up to 400 lines to the inch. Color Process. Europeans had solved the problem theoretically when Ives first made practical "color filters" for a camera, to extract from a colored painting the patterns and values...
...biggest eye in the world winked open and shut last week, a finished article. It was a long-range camera for the Army air service, with a nine-inch lens (the largest ever ground for a camera) to photograph the earth from an altitude of seven miles or so. Experts of the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N. Y.) had fashioned it, providing also a film specially sensitized to record light at the infra-red (long wave, dull light) end of the spectrum, a film taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon...
...into first place money and another new record of 151 ft. 3 3/8 in. The discus weighs 41/2 Ib. Houser threw it farther than most men can throw a baseball. With a mighty push he sent the shot floating through the air for another record of within a quarter inch...
...described to their friends the scene at Mr. Osborne's deathbed, dealing in dramatic fashion with the pathetic figure of the aged warden, decrepit but courageous still, dying unattended. These glib ones might have been grateful if someone had warned them that even the Herald's two-inch notice (an Associated Press despatch) contained certain inaccuracies...