Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy men with shovels, and three snow plows have been engaged since 7.30 o'clock yesterday morning in clearing the College grounds of snow. It has been estimated by an officer of the Maintenance Department that this work will cost the University approximately $2,000, or $100 for every inch depth of snow...
...last straw in the Norfolk controversy was gently laid on by the Boston Traveller yesterday. A vast three inch head across the top of its columns streamed forth the news that Norfolk prison graft had been bared in the Hurley Report; it was not until the story had lapsed into small type that the Traveller admitted two very important things--that the report had not yet been submitted to Governor Ely, and that whatever information the Traveller possessed on its contents came from "persons in the State House close to the Hurley probe." When it had retreated safely into...
...complete boulevardier. From his little office on the Ile de la Cité with its hideous blue wallpaper he started a slashing campaign against reckless taxi drivers and the vendors of filthy pictures. He calls everyone either mon petit or mon enfant, wears made-to-order shoes with two-inch heels and has won the adoration of the uniformed force. He has also become very rich, owns a chateau and a racing stable...
...peppy Terrier sextet, fighting every inch of the way, forced the Harvard ice outfit to the limit in the Arena on Saturday night, and it was not until the final minute of play that Benny Beale was able to outwit the B.U. goalie with the shot that gave the Crimson a 3-2 victory...
...Mutiny on the Bounty Captain Bligh was pictured as a villainous slavedriver. Men against the Sea shows him every inch a hero. The transformation is made plausible because this time the narrator is one of Bligh's most loyal followers. When at dawn on April 28, 1789, two-thirds of the Bounty's crew mutinied and put Captain Bligh and 18 men adrift in a ship's boat, with no firearms and scant provisions, it looked like the end for them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away...