Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time is explained by the fact that New Zealand is 9,000 miles to the east, of Cambridge. The distance was traversed by tremors passing 1,800 miles beneath the earth's outer crust, in 19 1-4 minutes, which registered a displacement of one thousandth of an inch on the seismograph machine. Dr. Leet regards it as a curious coincidence that on Monday, June 16, 1930, the record of a disturbance coming from the same locality was registered at a time only 69 seconds earlier than the recent earthquake...
...vibrations continued for over three hours, with a maximum displacement of 1-100 of an inch...
...gazed at His Holiness, he blessed them again, patted them. Thereupon they were led away to be coddled and permitted to lie asleep in laps of legends old until Easter. Then they would be shorn and killed. Their white wool will be woven into pallia, the circular bands two inches wide with two twelve-inch pendants, which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates, archbishops...
...that the 40,000-year-old falls will eventually be slanted back into a long series of rapids beginning near Tonawanda. N. Y. But New York's greatest thrill for honeymooners is safe for centuries to come. On the U. S. side the erosion process averages only one inch per annum...
...Bronx Zoo, New York City, last week made their annual measurement of Khartoum, world's biggest captive elephant. They used a special elephant-gauge designed for surveying fractious elephants at a distance. Khartoum, although he ate 91,250 lb. of hay last year, had gained only one quarter-inch. This brings him to 10 ft. 84 in., one half-inch short of the world's elephant record for all time held by the late Jumbo, famed Victorian elephant...