Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developments involve very high pressures and intense heat. In their special apparatus, white phosphorous was subjected to heat of 392 degrees Fahrenheit, and pressure of 12,000 atmospheres, equal to 190,000 pounds per square inch. The white phosphorous withstands this pressure for about ten minutes. Then suddenly there is a loud explosion; the phosphorous turns black...
...Franklin Roosevelt's desk, when reporters trooped into his office one day last week, lay a wicked-looking gold-handled seven-inch knife-a "yataghan," presented to him by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Said the President, waving it over his head: "I can put it in the wall at 30 paces." Replied New York Daily News Reporter Doris Fleeson: "How far down Pennsylvania Avenue can you throw...
...Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Illinois, blizzards that nipped early crops, tore down telephone wires, blocked roads; in Chicago, a 9-inch snowfall...
Prime piece of apparatus is a vertical, hollow cylinder, five feet high and four feet in diameter. On the inside wall of the cylinder are alternating black & white stripes, running vertically from top to bottom. These stripes can be adjusted in width from a maximum of five inches down to Moth inch. The animal is placed inside the cylinder, which is then turned slowly by hand. If the animal makes eye or head movements following the rotation, it is assumed that it can see the stripes. Their width is progressively diminished until the animal stops turning its eyes- thus showing...
...chord by chord the booming of the bell-batteries is being silenced. The taxi has found a new perch at the corner, ready to pounce out at the customer's slightest beckoning. Packard, Pierce, Lincoln, and Buick have sought refuge a block away, their white tires carefully left an inch from the curb. James or William are reading their tabloids and ogling passing maids and nurses. But the streetcar still runs. It rumbles up to the great, grey building, shudders to a violent halt, relaxes with a compressed air sign, and allows passengers to scurry off. Two women, plump, middle...