Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Electric's revered Elihu Thomson was succeeding so well in making small quartz mirrors for telescopes that last week he reaffirmed his promise of delivering a 200-inch mirror to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) in two or three years. It will be twice as wide and six or eight times as heavy as the Mount Wilson glass mirror (world's largest) of the Carnegie Institution. It will reflect four times as much light and probe eight times as far into space. Consequently, with it astronomers will be able to infer many new things about the structure...
Rowe, the Crimson entry in the broad jump came within an inch and a quarter of the record for this event, to beat out Donner of Dartmouth who was a heavy favorite to clinch the first place. The Green jumper's best attempt was two inches short of the University man's winning leap, while Cornell's leading contestant, Williams, was nearly a foot under his figure. The winning distance was 23 feet, 3-4 inch...
After the relay was over there was only one more event, the high jump, and as the spectators were clearing out Wickham, of Cornell, and Moody, of Dartmouth, took the jumps that tied them for first at 6 feet, 1 3-4 inches. Ebelhave, also of the Big Green, came in third with a leap just one inch less than that of the winners...
Body and hood to be of half-inch thick navy steel plate, designed to shed bullets...
...pretty much known quantity, since Harry Hillman has allowed his time trial results for all meets to be published. These show that certain men such as Donner, a broad jumper who took a third last year and is expected to break the existing meet record of 23 feet, 1 inch, and Alcorn, in the hurdles, are certain choices for taking their events. Moody, a former star high jumper has returned to Dartmouth this season after being out of college for several years, and his efforts to return to his old time form will be watched closely. Hillman claims that...