Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...giant race that rules the ring today. Jim Corbett weighed 184; Bob Fitzsimmons, 172; Tom Sharkey, 180; Peter Maher, 178. Jeffries was the only two hundred pounder among the champions of 30 years ago. Of the present group in prominence among the heavyweights, Dempsey stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 190. Harry Wills, Negro champion, rises to 6 feet 3 and weighs 215. Luis Firpo measures 6 feet 2 and weighs 225. Floyd Johnson, matched to meet Willard in New York in May, stands 6 feet 1 and weighs 195. Willard is the giant of the group: height...
...tumor was of the benign type, four inches long by two inches wide and three quarters of an inch thick. This is believed to have been the first operation for brain tumor under, a local anaesthetic...
...negative electricity, called by him "corpuscles," but later renamed "electrons." It is now believed that all matter is made up of "electrons," particles of negative electricity, and "protons," particles of positive electricity. The smallness of the electron is beyond human comprehension. Its diameter is about 30 trillionths of an inch. The most powerful microscope known would barely enable us to see an object 200 atoms wide, and if an atom were about the size of a large office building, an electron would be the size of a pinhead. Professor Thomson was Cavendish professor of experimental physics in Cambridge University from...
...connection with the army air service. Enormous natural forces are required to elevate moisture above the earth before it can be precipitated, according to the government meteorologists. For instance, 73,320 tons of moisture would have to be drawn into the air to cause a rainfall of only one inch over an area of even one square mile, an amount which would be negligible in an arid region like Ari- zona. Widespread drought is due to lack of water in the air, and obviously no device can bring down what is not there. Proposals to cause precipitation by sprinkling dust...
Calvin Coolidge: " I was present at the annual gathering of The Dutch Treat Club at the Waldorf-Astoria. They gave a show about Sex and Mr. Sumner that came within an inch of making me laugh...