Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deep Sea Explorer William Beebe returned to Manhattan last week from a six-month, 2,000-mile expedition, sponsored by the New York Zoological Society, off the west coast of Central America. Of the 20,000 specimens of marine life taken, prize catch was a 1½-inch sailfish, which Ichthyologist Beebe thought might be "the first example of a young sailfish ever captured...
There was a knock on the door. The Vagabond sloshed his safety razor in the bowl, took a sideways squint at the inch-wide path through his frothy whiskers and traipsed down the hall. It was Dick and Phil, two friends from the Yard...
Four dozen ten-inch sausages will be consumed in the current Dramatic Club production, "cannibal Carnival." High-grade frankforts will be eaten, while poor-grade dogs will be thrown. Long loaves of stale French bread with a few fresh loaves interspersed will supplement the degmeat...
Each student uses a graphite pencil and a special examination sheet. All he has to do is to make a pencil mark about a quarter of an inch long in one of the five answer columns accompanying each question. In the grading machine, the examination sheet is pressed against 750 both of electric contacts corresponding to the 750 answer positions on the paper. The pencil mark on any of the answer positions on the sheet closes an electric circuit, and with the graphite acting as the conductor of current, the machine automatically records whether the answers are right or wrong...
...rolled war plane motors. At Honfleur, France, an overloaded winch, lifting huge cases out of a steamer flying the flag of Panama which had arrived with "agricultural machinery" for Leftist Spain, broke down. This accident smashed against the side of the dock cases which broke open, spilled out six-inch gun carriages and a submachine...