Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American colleges deserve the greatest praise for their marvelous progress in javelin throwing. The event was not added to the Intercollegiate championship program until 1922, but the present record made by C. H. Storrs of Yale is 199 feet, 1 inch, a mark which compares very favorably with the Olympic record of 215 feet 9 3-4 inches which Jonni Myyra of Finished established...
...time was 9 minutes 42 3-5 seconds. The other Harvard mark maker was C. A. Pratt '28, who sailed the discus 135 feet, nearly 10 feet better than the old record. Covert of Dartmouth beat the old javelin record by better than ten feet, and Moody added an inch to the high jump mark...
...sought to regarnish, revitalize. Or perhaps his wife had something to do with it. Rachel Littleton came of no effete patroon line, though she did not mind marrying into one. Her father, Martin Wilie Littleton, is a lawyer of the very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst, his formation of the C-V Feature Service and later his beginnings of a grander venture, a chain of tabloid newspapers, doubtless young Vanderbilt himself could not say. Perhaps it was very...
...Labor Party ever since it adopted a political program 20 years or so ago. The development of the party has been accompanied by the formation of a group determined to control the government either through parliament or by a general strike. The radicals have grown impatient of the inch by inch progress which results from the policy followed by the American Federation. They demand quick action and the 'united front' which is essential to a general strike. They have perfected their organization and dealt the swift blow which they had been waiting to strike, but they cannot change fundamental economic...
...antimony, which would link the artifacts definitely with Punic work done at Carthage, on the Sahara's north edge, before its conquest by Rome in 146 B. C. The beads resembled Carthaginian work of the Fourth Century B. C. At the skeleton's ostrich-plumed head rested a six-inch statuet?a naked female with hips exaggerated as in Aurignacian figures of Paleolithic workmanship?which some held to be the famed Libyan Venus, others merely a fetish placed by the burial party for good luck...