Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reza Khan Pahlavi, "King of Kings," itched with impatience last week to take delivery of the first effective Navy which Persia has ever had. Built complete in Italy for the dirt-cheap price of $2,000,000, Persia's new Navy consists of two small gunboats mounting four-inch, three-inch and anti-aircraft guns plus four smaller gunboats with three-inch guns. Last week, proudly flying Persia's leonine standard,* the Navy steamed out of Naples, bound for the Persian port of Mohammerah. Officers and crews of the six new ships are 100% Persian, smartly uniformed...
...habit of mauling her when she displeased him, that she had shot ("to frighten him'') because he had come after her with a knife. Police at the apartment had discovered no knife. On second investigation of the house a lawyer named Hoffman produced a three-inch paring knife which he said he had found there. Then Mrs. Pollak's platinum-blonde cousin, a Mrs. Victoria Schultz, "eyewitness," supplied a huge carving knife. Lawyer Hoffman left the State...
...Dundee. On the flyleaf was written a record of the marriage and birth, signed by John G. Wendel. On the back flyleaf was a will bequeathing all John Wendel's property to his son, Thomas Patrick Mor ris Wendel. Also Morris submitted a pair of huge shoes with inch-thick gum soles which he said "Papa" Wendel once wore...
...Carbondale, Ill., Herman Rushkorff, farmer, was accustomed to drink wine in his cool cellar until he fell asleep. Last week wine-bibbing Herman Rushkorff dozed, fell with his face in a puddle of wine one inch deep, drowned...
...Manhattan last year, William Marshall, Negro, was stabbed through the heart. Last week he died of alcoholism. An autopsy showed an inch of knife blade in his heart, covered with scar tissue...