Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turning the bottle upside down, collecting the sediment on the face of the cork, freezing the wine in the neck of each bottle, removing the cork and the top lump of dirty ice. Mr. Moore performs this essential process mechanically. He drives two corks, connected by a three-inch chromium bar, into the bottle. He then places the bottle on a rack, turns it upside down. The sediment collects on the bottom of the cork in the neck. When the dirty cork is pulled out, it leaves the clean cork in its place...
...forward with a small steel bar, and wedged a block of cartilage, which he had cut from the ribs, in front of the ear. The block served as an extension of the jaw bone, soon grew firm and strong, advanced the lower jaw four-fifths of an inch (see cut). The new position of the jaw naturally changed the bite of the patient, but it did not take him long to get used to it. "There was very little post-operative reaction or discomfort," said the Survey. "The patient masticated food at the end of the fourth...
...classic criminal trial in the U. S. is one like that of the late Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a bitter battle of wits in which a prosecutor, inch by inch, weaves a damning web of evidence around a stubborn, close-mouthed defendant. Another kind of criminal trial, hitherto associated with Moscow, was last week proceeding in Manhattan. In it members of a conspiracy stumbled over themselves in their eagerness to confess dastardly deeds, while the only alleged conspirator who did not admit guilt looked as though he could hardly believe his ears...
...Seth Barnes Nicholson, keen-eyed young graduate student at Lick Observatory, sighted Satellite IX. Last week the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced that Dr. Nicholson, still in California looking for new moons, had discovered dim, elusive Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope.- "This discovery will rank as one of the great advances in astronomy of 1938," stated Director James Stohley of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. "There will be no hope of observing [the new satellites] except with the greatest telescopes...
...route to Palomar Mountain, Calif, are the 48 structural steel parts of the giant 200-inch telescope which will bring to focus four times as much light as the 100-inch telescope, make visible at least two billion stars now unseen...