Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that already a very large body of informed opinion has swung his way. He apparently knows that the almost unanimous committment of the Boston Press against him has begun to weaken, and that, given sufficient excuse, important units may be won over. Yesterday's performance shows that, given an inch, he can easily assimilate a mile, that he is becoming aggressive, and that he has perhaps started the ball rolling...
...laboratory at Lynn three electrical engineers, two nurses and Dr. Foster stood by while swarthy, black-mustached Dr. Michou stretched himself out on a big oak table. Dr. Foster made two inch-deep incisions. Dr. Michou hoisted up his buttocks. The engineers thrust a small steel cone attached to the 250-lb. magnet into one of the incisions, switched on a 3½-h.p. current. Nothing happened. The cone was drawn out, inserted in the second incision. After one breathless minute there was a tiny click. Seven voices cried...
These "peewee" cannon are expected to revolutionize military training, for the missiles, ordinary ball bearings one inch in diameter have a maximum range of 100 yards, and firing practice can hence be held on almost any vacant lot. The guns, which are scaled approximately one to 1000, in addition to the usual traversing and elevating machanism, have telescopic sights, so that the midget objective may not be lost sight of in the vastnesses of Soldiers Field. The handling is similar to the large field pieces in all details, so that practice may be held before the trip to Camp Ethan...
Technically the gun is described as being a .22 calibre rifle butt, to which is attached a one-inch tube to serve as the barrel. The elevating and traversing mechanisms are worked by geared hand wheels, and have a movable field of 45 degrees each. The blank cartridges are black powder, and the gun is muzzle loading...
...ahead of the field with Bonthron at his heels. Venzke joined them after a lap and the three ran five times around the track, each lap faster than the last. When they rounded the last turn, Bonthron was a full stride behind Cunningham. He made it up, an inch at a time, in the next 40 yards. Ten steps from the tape they were exactly abreast. Cunningham dived at the tape. Bonthron lunged without falling. The lunge won by inches, in 4.14. Bonthron jogged on around the track, came back to get the cup from Sportsman Hugh M. Baxter...