Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Sept. 28 issue, frequent reference is made to a misleading weather forecast given President Conant on the day of the Harvard Tercentenary celebration of Sept. 18. I probably am the meteorologist referred to in the article, who advised President Conant that "there would be less than 0.1 inch (specifically, I said, 0.05 to 0.06 inch) intermittent rain before 12 noon, and that it would be increasing after that hour to become heavy by the evening, with strong NE wind...
...spite of the abnormally difficult situation created by the rapidly advancing tropical cyclone, the forecast was completely verified as at Blue Hill, a much more exposed location than Cambridge, the intermittent rain was 0.08 inch by 12:30 p.m., and at the Boston Airport station of the U. S. Weather Bureau a total of 0.06 inch was recorded by 1 p.m. At the end of the ceremony President Conant congratulated Dr. Brooks for the accuracy of the forecast obtained from Blue Hill, which made it possible to hold the exercises out of doors with a minor degree of inconvenience...
...forecast was verified to the letter: the rainfall was intermittent: it was light, the amount at Blue Hill was only 0.08 inch up to 12:30. I was present throughout the exercises, wearing an academic gown but no raincoat or other protection, and did not get wet through...
Professor Crew attacked the problem with direct simplicity. He made himself a sleeve from a length of automobile tire inner tube, in which he cut a square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...
...cadets and soldiers under obstinate Commandant José Moscardó had withstood Red Militia assaults for the whole period of the Civil War. Against the six-foot walls of the Alcázar more than 6,000 four-inch projectiles and more than 4,000 six-inchers had been vainly fired by the Madrid Cabinet's untrained proletarian artillery. The Government's trained miners had failed to blow up the Alcázar's rock foundations with dynamite charges totaling four tons. Futile were thousands of gallons of gasoline shot from Red flame-sprayers. Futile were hundreds...