Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monarch with their barking 6-inch guns; but the condemned ship's 11-inch steel gun protection withstood bravely the clattering shells...
Next into the fray came the majestic dreadnoughts Hood, Repulse, Ramillies, Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Resolution, Revenge. From a distance of over ten miles, their 15-inch guns belched their destructive salvos of heavy shells, and at the end of the ninth hour, the Monarch lay riddled in Davy Jones' locker...
...been learning ever since. In 1909 I came over to the States and went down south to go over the battlefields of the war. I hired a pony and a mule and went through the Wilderness, by Petersburg, up the Rappahanock, in fact I went over every inch of ground where the fighting occurred. I stayed often at farmhouses, for the hotels, what few there were, were rather uncomfortable. And when the trip was over I came back to Washington, sold my pony and mule, and made $50.00 on the deal," ended the General proudly...
Then Prof. Michelson proceeded to describe an experiment which has been in progress for some months on a prairie just west of Chicago (TIME, Aug. 11). There a rectangle of 12-inch pipe, almost a mile in perimeter, was laid down. Its greater dimension extends from east to west. This pipe was sealed and the air exhausted. Mirrors were placed in the corners so that a beam of light would be reflected completely around it. In one corner an arc light was placed, the beams of which, split by mirrors, were reflected around the rectangle in opposite directions...
...fourth period, Baker intercepted a pass and Nevers again pulverized a path for Stanford. That time Notre Dame stayed him at the 8-inch line, however; and before the whistle blew, Horseman Layden frisked away six points of good measure. Score...