Word: inch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Line, Germany's West Wall? How long can Poland hold out? How menacing to Britain are Germany's submarines? How strong are Britain's air defenses? Last week each move of each division, each flight of each bomber, the torpedoes that found their marks, the four-inch, six-inch, ten-inch, 14-inch, 16-inch shells that screamed overhead, added their small sums to the totals that would give the great answers...
Resist the joe, refuse him every inch...
...water, beryllium is one of the lightest of all metals. It is a third lighter than aluminum. Chemically wedded to copper or nickel, it makes an extremely hard, tough alloy. Nickel with only 2% of beryllium in it has a tensile strength of 260,000 pounds per square inch, as against 90,000 for stainless steel. Moreover, this nickel-beryllium alloy maintains high tensile strength and resistance to "fatigue" up to temperatures around 1,000° C. For some time Germany has used beryllium for bushings, valve springs and other airplane and automotive engine parts which must combine strength with...
Remember the Iron Duke? A stout old whale, with twelve-inch steel skin.* Forward of her two tall funnels, forward of her bridge-balancing tripod mast, in a heavily armored conning tower, calm little Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, stood giving orders during the biggest battle of them all, Jutland...
...fields. The peasants have worked like demons on their tiny pieces of private property, and now this small fraction of Russia's agricultural land supports 13% more cows and pigs than on the collective farms. This scandalous situation became increasingly more scandalous: peasants tried to stretch their legal inch of private property into an illegal ell. Some local throwbacks actually hired comrades to work their required stint on the collective fields while they devoted all their time to their own acres...