Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concern. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor and Mrs. Roosevelt sitting beside him in the downpour, her new inauguration bonnet resembling a last year's bathing cap. It was not the buffet luncheon in the White House with 500 recently soaked notables. It was not the hour and a half spent...
...spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type, constructed the motordriven clockwork for his biggest telescope. He has made so many ship models (more than 100) that his wife is hard put to find room for them.. . Born in Philadelphia nearly 70 years ago as a bank president...
Hopes of skiing in this vicinity rose and fell as what appeared to be a substantial snow storm turned into rain and the two inches that had fallen melted rapidly. Warm weather spread north and rain prevailed as far as Plymouth. Jackson and the nearby Eastern Slope region of the White Mountains was covered by a five inch blanket of wet snow while Franconia and Pinkham Notches received a light fall of between two and three inches of powder snow...
Already the star has given one or two preliminary "pops", and observers believe that this is significant of further developments. The installation of the new 200-inch telescope at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California is expected to help crack this problem as well as that of what lies beyond the edge of the universe. It is thought that the nebulae which can be perceived through present telescopes are embryonic solar systems...
Still another question which it is hoped 1937 will uncover is that of the tiny dust particles floating through space, which account for many of the unusual qualities of light. They range in size from one ten thousandth of an inch to one ten millionth...