Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process of ratification the Senate leaders have discovered a valuable bit of legislative phychology. Mark Twain once told of a Missouri steamboat with a six inch cylinder engine and an eight inch cylinder whistle, so when the captain blow the whistle everything else, had to stop. Our Senate is constructed on an amazingly similar plan. But when the leaders shut down on the whistle by setting the time for the vote, the senators at last disposed of the treaty...
Every essay offered must be neatly and legibly written or typewritten on letter paper of good quality of quarter size with a margin not less than one inch all around so that it may be bound up without injury to the writing. The title page of each manuscript must bear an assumed name, and the writer must hand in with his manuscript a seated letter containing his true name and super scribed with his assumed name...
...competition is based on the point system which gives approximately a point an inch for scoops and half as much for assignments...
...Libbey of Dartmouth, with a 9 inch handicap, won the pole-vault at 12 feet two inches...
More drawings of the proposed scenes will not be sufficient, but actual models conforming to the following regulations will be required: Models must be made on the one-half inch scale, (i. e., one-half inch to the foot). Each model must have a proscenium front as a frame, and must be furnished with complete lighting equipment, including bulbs and wires. Candidates submitting models for all the sets will receive preference in judgment, but others should hand in as many sets as they are able to complete...