Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that one would find in a trip from Georgia to the St. Lawrence-including flourishing chestnuts (now moribund from Pennsylvania north), holly, magnolia, the rare yellowwood, giant hemlocks, 30-ft. huckleberry bushes, acres of mountain laurel, rhododendrons with 18-inch trunks. Only lately have the Great Smokies been accurately mapped, and then a plane had to fly back and forth over them for days. There are no roads yet through the heart of the region, but soon one will be built, presumably with a filling station on majestic Mt. Guyot...
...inch advertisement and a brief publicity notice appeared in New York City newspapers one day last week announcing the return of a famed young woman. A year ago the shrug of her well-rounded shoulders was worth a big black headline. But that was history by which many a newspaper profited and was shamed. Last week's item was that Mrs. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning went on the stage of the vast Keith-Albee Hippodrome in uptown Manhattan. Adequately clothed, she sang briefly and badly in a vaudeville act, introduced by a sleek whippersnapper. To a few newsgatherers...
...tubes the electrons popping from the cathode are imprisoned within the tubes. How to get them outside became a problem for scientists. Philip Lenard, Nobel prizewinner for 1905 and now professor at the University of Heidelberg, solved it by placing a thin aluminum "window," one eighth of an inch in diameter, at one end of a tube. Electrons passed through it, but feebly. He used only 30,000 volts of electricity...
...Coolidge, working with able assistants at the Schenectady research laboratories of General Electric, two years ago succeeded more magnificently. For his window he used a sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin. (Human hair varies between 6/1000 and 126/10,000 of an inch in diameter.) And he used 350,000 volts of current. Electrons hurtled through the nickel foil, speeding about 150,000 miles a second (four-fifths the speed of light). As beta and gamma rays, similar to the offshoots from radium, they turned acetylene gas into a yellow powder such as scientists never before had seen. They...
...mile and the 1000-yard run; and third, the record-breaking heave of C. A. Pratt '28 who, urged on by the apparently unsurpassable toss of Anderson of Cornell, rose to the supreme effort of his career and with a put of 42 feet two and three-fourths inches nosed out the Ithacan by one half an inch to establish a new meet record...