Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manoel's wife, Princess Augusta Victoria Hohenzollern, or his secretary, who were the only people in his house that afternoon, found a tube and forced it down his throat he might have lived longer. The glottis, the slit-like opening into the larynx, less than an inch long, is capable of swelling with alarming rapidity. Intubation (insertion of a tube) lets the patient breathe until the swelling has subsided. More frequently the physician will cut into the trachea through the neck and insert the tube from the outside. If laymen such as Dom Manoel's wife and secretary...
...Woodrow Wilson; by his own hand (.22 revolver); in Mountain Lakes, N. J. He left a note to a friend: ". . . A .22 may not work. I hope it does. But if it doesn't remember the fellow who had a one-inch piece of steel rammed through his head and lived. ... I have learned recently that the dollar is divided into increments as small as five cents...
...coast line was not sighted but after determining by dead reckoning and bearings on mountain peaks that we had crossed the coast we dove blindly into the fog and at about 1,200 ft. found its bottom layer. . . . Proceeding overland via Beaumont and Banning battling every inch against blistering, boisterous blasts from the desert and surrounding mountains. Even at 4,000 ft. the temperature was 94?...
John E. Mellish, 46, is a person of importance to U. S. astronomy. He is a grinder of telescope lenses, which he, with infinite pains and patience, can polish to within one one-millionth of an inch of perfection. Last week, and every weekday for the past nine months-hour after hour-he has worked under the surveillance of the Kane County, Ill. sheriff...
Press correspondent "a story of excruciating suffering in the Paraguayan jungle, including being almost eaten alive by ants nearly an inch long. . . . He told of battling floods . . . chopping his way through a jungle with a machete. . . . His companions sickened and faced starvation. In spite of the fact that his feet were rotting from the humidity he walked 18 miles until he found some Indians with whom he was able to barter cloth, fish hooks and soap for some beans, corn and mandioca root to feed his party...