Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court gave TVA a big inch in 1936, when it upheld TVA's right to sell the power generated by its flood-control activities at Wilson Dam (Muscle Shoals). Last week the Court handed down a 5-to-2 decision* that gave TVA a mile. Fourteen private power companies had appealed from a Federal court decision, which affirmed the constitutionality of TVA's entire power program and held that any loss they suffered from TVA competition was damnum absque injuria (loss without a legal comeback). In moderate Justice Roberts' decision, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal...
...morning of Barcelona's capture, Radio Barcelona warned the approaching Rebels that the "city will be defended inch by inch, house by house, street by street." This bold talk reminded the world that Barcelona had smashed the local Fascist uprising in July 1936 with speed and vigor not duplicated anywhere else in Spain. The revolutionary Anarchists, Communists and Socialists-who had learned their discipline and their politics in the only large industrial centre in the country-proceeded to clear Catalonia of Franco forces and chase them half way across Aragon...
...united. To nail the knob back on the patient's thighbone, Dr. Groves needed a solid, rodlike bone. He remembered that stags' antlers, which sprout afresh every year, are homogeneous, have no marrow cavity. So he ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that it was impossible to detect which had been the damaged leg. . . . Within three years the bone peg had been completely absorbed and replaced...
...have a shaving brush "of stiff hair, grayish in color . . . four-and-a-half inches over all, the handles three-quarters of an inch in diameter . . . stamped [on top] 'Japan 33²' and on the side . . . 'Imperial - sterilized' " put on your gloves, wrap it up, and bring it at once to your local health department...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola sent a trio of shot-putters to the 23rd annual Y. M. C. A. handicap meet and they scored a sweep in the event. Bud Towksbury and Art Mason received 8 foot 5 inch handicaps and finished first and second with heaves of 50 foot 7 inches and 49 foot, while Howie Mendel placed third with a 48 foot 81/2 inch toss including his 2 foot 1 inch handicap...