Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton, son of a California oilman, chalked up while...
Daphnia, a one-fourth inch relative of lobsters and crabs, can live in ten drops of water. It is small enough for its whole body to be studied through a microscope and transparent enough to be projected upon a magic lantern screen (see cut, p. 32). These qualities make Daphnia a fine biological subject on which to test drugs, Professor Viehoever recently realized. For Professor Viehoever, Daphnia solved an important strychnine puzzle, he enthusiastically told the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Denver this week. This bitter, crystalline product of nux vomica is used as a tonic, stimulant...
...took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant was 8 ft. 5 in. tall...
...your issue of May 17, in the article about President Roosevelt's fishing on the Texas coast, you carry the report which the President sent out that all his party caught at Port Isabel was a nine-inch catfish. The inference is that tarpon fishing at Port Aransas is excellent, while at Port Isabel it is worthless. The facts are that tarpon fishing is good at both places; and the facts further are that the President did not give tarpon fishing at Port Isabel a trial...
...substituted, before his audience, the required full dress and top hat. Kneeling, he received the Papal blessing, then had a chance to chat privately with His Holiness, with Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, rector of Rome's North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower. The Pope presented a silver-framed pastel of himself autographed "Toto corde benedicens,"- a pearl rosary and a relic...