Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those not scientists, however, have only a skimpy idea. So, since natural history museums should educate as well as collect, the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan had Curator Roy Waldo Miner reproduce in wax and glass a cubic half inch of pond life. The exhibit was opened to the public last week...
...Franco-British agreement provides no limitation whatsoever on six-inch gun cruisers, or destroyers, or submarines of 600 tons or less. . . . Such cruisers constitute the largest number of fighting ships now existing in the world...
Last week the monolith was being let down the mountain, inch by inch, with nervous precaution, lest a jolt or jar should crack the flawless stone. Pessimists predicted that any ship bearing it would be weighted down so much as to stick in the shallow Tiber. But optimists assumed that "Benito will find...
Matchmaking. Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking...
Imagine this combination: RUBE BLOOM plus GEORGE GERSHWIN plus THE COMPOSERS AT THE PIANO plus PAUL WHITEMAN plus TWO VICTOR TWELVE INCH RECORDS plus the name METROPOLIS. This is rumored to be released sometime in October. Orders may be placed now on the strength of the rumor...