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Word: inches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masaryk is a pretty illustration of man s inability to transcend his environment, except when it becomes absolutely unbearable. . . . Florid, faultless plaid suit, suede shoes, a proper inch of cuff showing, a hearty voice spouting inconsequential generalities for the press. He was a study in hopeless indifference. How unlike the father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unlike Son | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...will not be possible ... to carry water for washing purposes or razors. Smoking, also, will be most strictly prohibited, for every cubic inch of oxygen will be needed for human consumption. It can be seen that those who undertake the journey will in addition to a variety of hazards be subject to severe privations. Neither will it be necessary to take along any form of arms for in the unlikely event of there being inimical life on our satellite it is not probable that it would be of a type that would be seriously affected by [firearms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Payload to the Moon | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...themselves. Students spend more for meat, fish, eggs and poultry than for any other kind of food. The trend-watchers must have thought that fact particularly significant, just as significant as the fact that Harvard University has discovered that its students are growing taller at the rate of one inch every 32 years. It things keep moving at that speed, Harvard boys will soon be men. -"The Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

That made Institutions the leader of the Industry and Finance section. And that made President Compton of M. I. T., chairman of Institutions, the recipient of the Campaign's first prize, a thirty inch high Orphan Annie doll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gifts Total $53,000 in Community Fund Campaign | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Skiing Snow in. Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 21 Powder Brookline, N.H. N.H. Fair Good 14 Powder Cansan, N.H. Fair Good 19 14 over 5 unb. cr. Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Fair Good 67 5 inch new powder Conway, N.H. Fair Good 18 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Cloudy Good 15 4 New Powder Franconia Notch, N.H. Fair Good 48 5 inch new powder Fryeburg, N.H. Fair Good 23 Dry Powder Greenfield, N.H. Fair Good 12 4 inch powder Intervale, N.H. Fair Good 19 Powder Jackson, N.H. Fair Good 20 Powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Fair Good 21 4 Dry over powder Lancaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIING CONDITIONS | 2/10/1939 | See Source »

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