Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quarter-Inch...
...chance comparable to the famed St. Martin case. Marie Overby, 9, and her mother had been motoring near the city. Their car became entangled in a fallen high-power transmission line. Mrs. Overby was electrocuted. Rescuers rushed Marie to Little Rock where hospital attendants discovered a nine-inch hole burned through her left chest wall. Flesh, ribs and pleura were gone. The left lung had collapsed. But her heart was beating strongly. She said she felt no pain. There was no possible hope of saving her. So the doctors, mindful of the professional value of an exposed heart action, dragged...
...pheasant by accident and had no idea what to do with it, was relieved when it went away. Best scene in the book: a description of two strange dogs meeting for the first time, "both with hangdog look, miserable and deeply em barrassed and both incapable of yielding an inch or of passing each other...
Seated or standing on a level with the rest the "high tablers" accordingly would be obscured. The four inch dais merely compensates an equivocal detail, with a reasonable allowance for future growth...
...Inches here surpass fathoms of elevation. If the Lowell House dais had been a four inch depression instead, where dignitaries in dinner coats are served about a symbolic fountain of Florida water of five or ten watts even, the affront to democracy would have been extreme, and beyond measure regrettable...