Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce which wants to repeal the Wage-Hour Law-to all these and sundry other critics Franklin Roosevelt this week boomed his answer. In his best oratorical form, before the friendly American Retail Federation, he virtually defied all critics, announced that the New Deal would not give them an inch...
Then Queen Elizabeth made her first speech, and exercised the Royal prerogative to break a date. The date she broke was engraved in six-inch letters on the cornerstone of the new Supreme Court building which will rise on a bluff overlooking the Ottawa River. Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19. Blithely, with an ivory-handled gold trowel, the Queen tapped the stone on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose accent moved her to remark: "You haven...
...plane crashed through two 18-inch brick walls, littered the observatory's sleek marble floor with broken bricks, mortar, gasoline, wreckage. Both aviators were killed. The telescope (a 36-inch refractor) was not damaged and no astronomers were hurt. But two offices containing precious photographs were wrecked...
...discovery of further and greater cosmic motions may be made when bigger telescopes (such as Caltech's 200-inch) are completed. At present the visible universe is a galaxy-studded space a billion light-years in diameter. Some day it may be found that this whole aggregation with its hidden fringes is moving as an organized system relative to other aggregations of comparable size, not yet seen...
Before Peiping fell to the Japanese in 1937, two hallowed objects were smuggled out of its ancient Forbidden City. About as easy to smuggle as a couple of dentists' chairs, they were an eight-foot, ten-inch white jade Buddhist pagoda (largest jade piece in the world), and a gold, lacquer and mother-of-pearl teakwood Dragon Throne on which Manchu emperors had sat from the 17th Century to the close of their reign. In great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk...