Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...move the metal wall back and forth according to their intensity, making the slot wider or narrower. The light beam, passing through the slot, falls on the revolving cylinder, printing broader or narrower lines of light on the film. With each revolution the cylinder is jerked 1/65th of an inch to the right, and the spot traces another line exactly parallel. This interval was found the best for newspaper pictures, but the machine can be set for any degree of fineness or coarseness, according to the type of engraving to be reproduced...
...warning for men to visit their barber before they buy their straw hats was issued yesterday by the National Association of Men's Straw Hat Manufacturers. "The average head of hair", it was stated, "within ten days of its shearing, increases a full quarter of an inch in circumference. These figures were compiled from figures made on thousands of heads. If due precaution is not taken, buyers will find their straw hats flopping down around their ears after their first hair...
...chapel", he said, "is carved out of the rock cliff. It is about 40 feet square and every inch of the walls is carved with Buddhist figures. In the center there is a natural rock pillar which supports the chapel, on which are carved large elephant heads facing the four corners of the earth. As the elephant is not a native animal to China, Indian or Buddhist influences were firmly entrenched in China in the 5th century...
...lined with brilliantly uniformed soldiers and thousands of cheering Britons. Both Kings were dressed in military uniforms and were seated in the first carriage. Queen Mary was, as usual, dressed severely, wore a silver-tissue brocade coat and the inevitable perching toque, and, as usual, she looked every inch a Queen. Queen Marie wore a wine-red fur-trimmed cloak and a large hat well down upon her head...
...collecting was on the day of the Indiana game, October 8, 1921. The clouds had been threatening all day, but the rain held off until exactly five minutes after 4 o'clock, when it came down in a sudden deluge at the rate of about one-twentieth of an inch a minute. The insurance company, however, stuck to the letter of the policy and withheld...