Word: inch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time since the War. Rare in the boom years of 1917-18 and 1928, they were more than twice as frequent in the 1932 depression as in the 1921 depression. In 1934, after Hitler's rise, they "occurred at the amazingly high rate of once in every column inch of advertising matter-five times as frequent as in 1932." Until 1934 "one of the great New York papers"† banned the specification, but today "Christian" appears once in every 6½ column-inches, "Anglo-Saxon" once every 29. Another paper runs "Christian" once every half column-inch, "Anglo-Saxon...
From The Daily News Syndicate in Switzerland and International News Service in London came spectacular additions to the story. Dr. Goebbels had been beaten, it was said, within an inch of his life by friends of Actress Baarova's husband. These friends, incensed because the husband had been sent to a concentration camp, had surprised the Propaganda Minister in Lida's rooms, might have killed him had it not been for the intervention of Dr. Goebbels' chauffeur. Frau Goebbels, one of Herr Hitler's more prominent tea-pourers, was supposed to have chuffed off to Copenhagen...
...reply to Premier Mussolini last week, France left the door open for further discussion, but announced firmly that: 1) she would not cede one inch of French territory; 2) that she wished no third party to "mediate...
...surfaces properly it is possible to get the "crest" of a light wave bouncing off the glass to coincide with the "trough" of the wave bouncing off the soap so that the two cancel out. It appeared that a film dried as a varnish four millionths of an inch thick was just right to kill all reflections. Yet the film-on-glass combination is a highly efficient transmitter of light, for some 99% of the light which reaches it passes on through...
...Russia, which hitherto has concentrated on underwater craft, is entering the battleship race, plans to construct three 35,000-tonners, each with nine 16-inch guns...