Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, has discovered a new comet and with the help of an assistant has computed its orbit, it was announced at the Observatory yesterday. The comet was discovered by accident on a photographic plate taken with the 16 inch refracting telescope at the Oak Ridge observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts...
...mounting for the 61-inch telescope to be erected at the Oak Ridge Observatory has been shipped and Observatory, officials expect that the instrument will be in operation by the first of December unless some unforeseen difficulties arise...
Soldiers claimed that the first shot was fired by an officer out of his bathroom window. Promptly the soldiers blazed away with machine guns, then rushed two three-inch field guns into place and began pounding great holes in the sides of the National, property of Manhattan's Plaza Operating...
...three aeronauts and two 'chute jumpers sealed themselves in the spherical gondola for a takeoff. W^ith a dramatic flourish Air Commander Garankidze waved the ground crew to cast off. The huge bag rose groggily about 10 ft. It wobbled sideways across the airdrome, but not an inch higher would it go. The ground crew dragged the bag back; part of the heavy apparatus was unloaded. Still no luck. After two hours of struggle, Air Com-mander Garankidze wearily ordered: "De- flate." The ripcord was yanked and the silvery bag billowed to earth. C. A German racing balloon, blown...
...tribe is a handsome young man known as Tshekedi. He was educated in Britain at great expense, speaks English like an actor. His administration had been exemplary but, faced with the case of lewd Phineas Mackintosh, he ordered him tried by a native court, had him flogged within an inch of his life...