Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than one particle of star dust in each 15 cu. in. of interstellar space. If that is so, then all the star dust along the 25-million-million-mile line between Earth and Proxima Centauri, nearest star except the Sun, could be packed in a half-inch cube...
Each plant was nearly two feet high and bore flowers almost two inches in diameter. Most of the 300 species of clover have triple leaves, like the shamrock. There are "lucky" four-leaf freaks, and rare five- and seven-leaf varieties. The Thompson specimens have seven leaves normally, which grow on long, eight-inch stems...
...observatories the director will press a button and transmit the signal to the Exposition. W. A. Calder, tutor in Astronomy, who has been doing research work in astronomy with the photo-electric cell, has invented and set up the apparatus that will be used on the 24-inch reflector at Oak Ridge...
Born. To Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, and to Rachel Young LaFollette; a son (7 lb. 14 oz.); in Washington. Engaged. Leonora Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married...
...took every place in the broad jump and mile run. Six of the Harvard winners were ex-Andover trackmen. F. J. Lane '36 won the 100-yard dash in 10 seconds, and the 220 in 22 seconds. N. L. Cahners '36 won the hammer throw by only an inch margin, his best throw being 167 feet, 10 1-2 inches. The summary...