Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Field Marshal Lord Allenby stands out as one of the most successful British Commanders of the War. He is 63 years of age a man of large proportions, "every inch a soldier...
Said Yusuke, every inch the diplomat: "The recent Immigration Bill . . . has had and will continue to have 'grave consequences.' . . . To grow angry about it is like growing angry at storms and earthquakes. . . . America and Japan, on the opposite shores of a vast ocean, stand now upon the threshold of a new era-the Pacific...
...Around it the country is flat as it stretches away in all directions?except to the East, where there is fresh water. On this surrounding prairie, there lies a town called Clearing. Here on a piece of open ground, workmen have been busy laying a great amount of twelve-inch water-mains. They are the most curious water-mains that have ever been laid. There are 72,000 linear feet of them, connected with seven tons of lead to make the joints airtight. The labor of laying them alone is said to have cost $7,500. There is no water...
...asked to illustrate a poem by Arthur Gillman, The Revolt of the Alphabet, to be published in St. Nicholas. It was in the margins around this poem that the first Brownies capered and grimaced; after that the magazine rarely appeared without them. Remarkable creatures they were, about an inch high; their bodies were uncouth but agile ? spindle-shanked, with rotund small bellies; they had pendulous cheeks, tiny eyes and huge mouths, capable of infinite expression. They could wear any clothes with an odd look, but their noirmal garb was doublet and hose, worn with a tasseled cap peculiar...
Last week the shields were less than 500 ft. apart. In spite of their huge weight, the distance they have been propelled, and the many difficulties, Chief Engineer Clifford Holland and his staff were confident that the calculations will not be wrong by more than an inch. Each shield weighs 400 tons. The one from New Jersey has taken a snake-like course through mud, the one from Manhattan has had to eat through stone. They move in shoves of 2 1/2 ft.; and after each shove, "sand hogs" probe for obstructions with long iron bars. Manhattan skyscrapers are used...