Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shortly to be presented with a tambourine-long the property of Matthew Strohm, for 42 years instructor of gymnastics at the Naval Academy. The Secretary of the Navy, then a Cadet at Annapolis, tickled this tambourine with his toe on June 6, 1888. The tambourine was nine feet, one inch from the ground, and the kick was a world's record...
Contrary to general belief, cutting hair does not improve its growing qualities. The years when hair grows most quickly are between 35 and 60. The thickest hairs laid side by side, number 150 to the inch; silky hairs laid side by side, are 500 to the inch...
...takes a hair about six weeks to grow one inch. On the crown and back of the head the hair can grow 40 to 50 inches and be not unusual...
...floor of the 47 Workshop was covered with an inch of water. The harm done to the scenery cannot be estimated until it dries out. "If it warps," said Professor G. P. Baker '87 when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter, "it will be destroyed, but I cannot tell yet just what will happen. By the greatest piece of luck all the scenery for our coming play next week was removed yesterday to Agassiz House...
...former intercollegiate champion and holder of the intercollegiate hammer throw record has been practicing every afternoon behind the Stadium. He graduated from Bowdoin last year and is now studying at Tufts. His 181 foot 6 1-2 inch hammer throw in the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet last spring was the most brilliant individual performance...