Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main item of interest at last week's convention was the railroad built by the Detroit club on a scale of 17/64 inch to the foot. It is powered by 18-volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9-ft. spot-welded steel replica of New York City's Hell Gate Bridge. Visitors chuckled at the signs erected along this road at points where construction was under way: WPA PROJECT-SLOW-MEN AT WORK...
...senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners won him a government appointment. He was again disillusioned. Instead of finding himself with opportunities to pursue his research, he was given six months in which to decide whether a two-and-a-half inch bandage is better than a three-inch. With his last ?600 he bought a down-&-out practice in London, found after months of struggle that he had a charming bedside manner, settled down to make a fat living in the swank West End by flattery, worthless capsules, clothes made...
...room. Very little had been accomplished when the cycad-lovers arrived, trailed by the President of the university and his fuming committee. It was a little difficult to appear dignified and interested and at the same time keep their morning coats and striped trousers out of the inch-thick dust while the Prince and Wieland continued their ardent and interminable conversation. His Royal Highness even demanded to see a particular specimen that had been filed in the jam-packed basement. Eventually President Angell persuaded the Prince to return to the chore of meeting 200 or so of New Haven...
...Major Stevens' plates clearly show a perfectly even corona surrounding the sun, at a depth considerably greater than the diameter of the body. His photographs include eleven pictures with a 24-inch camera, four pictures with an 8 1/4-inch camera, and 150 feet of motion picture film made with a 6-inch lens...
...this gallimaufry, manages to appear at times an appealing if toothy bit of cockney femininity. What gives Gangway a slightly embarrassing quality is the earnest brightness with which its British characters mimic American parts of speech. Though they are almost letter-perfect and have obviously been coached within an inch of their larynx, their "yeahs" and "flatfoots" and "old battle-axes" induce on the U. S. ear the same faint note of horror as a child's unmeaning blasphemy or an innocent lady's use of an unprintable word...