Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cover of an early manuscript book is a heavy chain, with inch-long links, by which the volume was attached to its shelf in the days before printing had made books plentiful. On the other hand, the exhibit shows, when printing was invented, binders thought that manuscripts were useless and often cut up beautifully illuminated pages to make stiffening for bindings...
Winner of the broad jump was Freshman Robert Partlow. Prominent in his class as a sprinter Partlow's best and winning jump was 20 feet. Runner-up was Fred Ulen '39, who, with the benefit of a 10 inch handicap was put down for 19 feet, eight inches. Paul Morgan '39, and Sparks Sorlien '39 followed third and fourth...
...short that sometimes two movements are played on one ten-inch side, the Boyce works are melodious, inventive, contrapuntally ingenious. They were conducted by Mr. Waldman's part-time associate, Max Goberman, onetime pupil of Leopold Auer, onetime violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, at present assistant concertmaster in Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Messrs. Waldman and Goberman declare that their firm, which will issue an old and a new work every month (first new one: two octets by Dmitri Shostakovich), will put profits, if any, into the making of more & better discs...
Atom Anatomy. The largest atom is only .00000001 inch in diameter, and many of the most important atoms handled by physicists are considerably smaller. An ancient Greek, Democritus, coined the word "atom" which means indivisible. For thousands of years this was a perfectly good name but for the past two decades, since the first atoms were sundered, it has been archaic...
...Then, I imagined the quarter-inch insect expanding to my size, with everything around it enlarging in proportion. It was a curious sensation-like breathing in and out-this contracting and expanding viewpoint. The six-foot ladybug, I perceived, would live in a world where grassblades would be as wide as a highway and would tower hundreds of feet in the air. Crickets twenty-four feet long would crawl through the grassroot jungles. Moths, with wings stretching more than 100 feet from tip to tip, would soar through the air at dusk. Bushes would have the appearance of frowning cliffs...