Word: inchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around effete Eastern streams, trout that size are merely measured, not weighed, and an 18 or 19-incher like the General's, if referred to at all, is called "a nice fish...
Successful Debris. Previous cyclotrons, they explained, had just chipped away at the atom, knocking off two or three small particles. But the 184-incher's bullets cause such havoc in atoms that researchers have so far been unable to sort out all the debris. Said one of the California scientists: "With the old cyclotron of 225 tons [60 inches], we could knock two or three floors off a 50-story building, or maybe add a floor or two. But with the new cyclotron, we can knock that 50-story building into a flock of four-room bungalows, with...
...Whitford hitched another photoelectric cell to a telescope, this time Mt. Wilson's giant 100-incher. As the bands raced past, they knocked from the cell a fluctuating electric current. Dr. Whitford shot the current into an "oscilloscope" to make the fluctuations visible. He took a picture of their pattern of peaks and valleys, then measured the diffraction bands, and from them calculated the diameter of the star...
...Legged Leaper.JohannesAndries de Villiers. a 19-year-old sophomore at South Africa's Heidelberg Normal College, caused a sensation by high-jumping 5 ft. 7 in. in his first competitive try. He has no right leg. The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar, hopped up momentum without his crutches, hurled himself over in a standard "western roll...
...Spencer, first into action was the forward 3-in. gun. A splash foamed beyond the submarine. Another was closer. The port 3-incher roared. Big 5-in. guns fore & aft plowed furrows of water near the U-boat. The air reeked of cordite fumes. Black dust and smoke settled over the Spencer's decks and hung in the air. Stocky, gruff Captain Harold Sloop Berdine kept his ship on a course that gave the gunners a maximum chance...