Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100-mi. away a half-dozen British freighters were in the harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, loaded with food for beleaguered Leftist Bilbao, but by orders from London the Hood, with all the awesomeness of its 15-inch guns, could not protect them past the menace of the blockading España, kept them anchored in the French harbor...
...Soviet Fleet contains only three battleships, each 26 years old. Besides plans for more submarines, cruisers, destroyers, Moscow announced that two new dreadnaughts would be built, each of 35,000 tons, equipped with 16-inch guns...
...Vienna, School Teacher Waldemar Boden was sentenced to two months in jail for forcing his pupils to swallow half-inch iron nails as "proof of their loyalty...
Last week Dr. Langmuir talked about stearic acid, a substance found in animal fat, which makes a monomolecular film one ten-millionth of an inch thick. This turned out to be an extremely sensitive detector for atoms of metal in water. If the metal atoms are jostled around by stirring the water, they will soon strike the underside of the film, adhere to it. The film is skimmed from the water, allowed to contract. If it contains no metal, when viewed by polarized light it will give a double refraction effect in handsome colors. But if there were only...
...organ contains 1,447 pipes, ranging from a large sixteen-foot pipe giving low C, to a small three-quarters inch pipe giving high...