Word: inch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roster of Curtis magazines since 1911 when the Country Gentleman was purchased, and latest product of the Curtis Co.'s ambition to service the American Family from top to bottom, the November issue of Jack and Jill (40,000 copies) runs to 48 seven-by-ten-inch pages, illustrated with single-color drawings, price...
Although Britain's tallest ambassador, six-foot-four-inch Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. has spent the past four years of his diplomatic life in Egypt, until last week he put little stock in the accepted Egyptian method of removing snakes from a household. Proper procedure for this everyday occurrence is to call a professional snake charmer...
...laughed" but were ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested that Winchell must have bought in on the show...
...clear spectrum it is necessary to work with a very narrow band of light; but, because of atmospheric distortion, the image comes in as a diffuse, approximately circular blob. In practice the light is therefore fed through a narrow slit, perhaps one-thousandth of an inch wide. This screens off most of the diffuse image, but wastes 90 to 95% of the light, squanders countless hours of exposure time on big telescopes, prevents spectroscopic analysis of the farthest visible nebulae or "island universes...
...quiet, brilliant Ira Sprague Bowen. No bigger than a child's fist, this gadget splits up the blobby image of a star or nebula into a number of thin strips by means of a combination of mirrors which feed each one of the strips through the one-thousandth-inch spectroscope slit. After passing through, these slices of light are recombined into a single band, suitable for analysis, by a cylindrical lens. The Bowen image-slicer makes it possible to use 50% to 75% of the available light, instead of 5% to 10%. Physicist Rudolph Meyer Langer of Caltech declared...