Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producing from his pocket a dynamite bomb, the soldier slid it gingerly into the 4-inch pipe, lowered it slowly until it reached what felt like the bottom of the pipe. At 4:25 a. m. he lit the fuse...
...Leet, seismologist in charge. It started early in the morning and continued through the night. These rythmatic earth-vibrations have puzzled seismologists for many years. In the last storm the earth's crust in this vicinity was agitated by ripples causing vibrations as great as one thousandth of an inch, or five times as great as those recorded in a similar storm last December...
...sensitive fluorescent plate, take pictures of the objects under his microscope. He wanted the instrument primarily to study metals, but since it was so powerful he and other scientists applied it to living cells. The shallowness of focus allowed them to take horizontal cross sections 1/100,000 of an inch apart...
Varying in sizing from an inch to several inches square, the cards are highly colored and some are elaborately decorated. The collection is temporarily housed in the Manuscript Division of the library...
Eight white men, three Indians and one Negro have been lynched in North Dakota* since 1889 when the region became a State. The eighth white man died last week, hanging under a bridge at the end of an inch-thick rope...