Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great war memorial, conceived the idea, enlisted the coöperation of the greatest artists and artisans in England to carry it out. The house is a miniature model of a completely furnished royal palace, eight feet high, and everything in it is on a scale of one inch to a foot. Thumbnail paintings by Orpen, Sargent, Lavery, Cope, Holliday, of the Academy; murals by Nicholson; decorations by Edmund Dulac; etchings by Stanley Anderson; a staircase by Frampton, the sculptor; miniature books, with hand-written extracts by over a hundred British authors, including an original play by Barrie; music specially...
...species is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Diplodocus stood 16 feet high at the hips, weighed 18 tons in the flesh, had a tiny snake-like head and an elongated neck and tail composed of scores of vertebrae and tail-bones varying from three feet to one inch in length. It browsed on trees, bushes...
...French manufacturing concerns could only produce the 75 mm. gun, and as a result, the standard unit of the American Field artillery was changed from the perfectly satisfactory three inch gun to the 75 mm. gun. Gun rifles, projectiles, caissons, everything had to be changed from the three inch basis...
...Since the war, however, we have returned to the three inch gun. The split-trail feature is now being used and we have increased the range of the gun by increasing the muzzle velocity and the weight of the carriage...
...have not limited our experimentation and testing at Ft. Bragg entirely to this light cannon. We have been developing a new mountain gun, 105 mm. howitzers, 155 mm. howitzers and guns, eight inch and 240 mm. howitzers. In all these guns an increase in range is sought, and, as compared with the guns in use at the close of the war, this end has been partially gained, largely by means of improving the powder, fuses, and projectiles...