Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sale cheap--2 Harvard Tricycles, English imported machines at a bargain. 2 Harvard Bicycle machines, 52 inch, at less than cost. 2 50 inch Harvard Bicycles. 2 48 inch Harvard Bicycles. 4 Harvard Safeties. All these machines are warranted best English make, and will be sold at less than cost price. Bicycle suits to order. J. W. Brine...
...Hoover, Mr. Smith and New York Life's President Buckner lined up behind President Buckner's desk for three-cornered handshaking photographs. There was a moment's hush, broken when Mr. Hoover leaned over to President Buckner, volunteered in a sepulchral whisper: "I have shrunken an inch...
...marshal beside whom Chancellor Schuschnigg and President Miklas of the Austrian Republic seemed dwarfed to insignificance Der Feldmarschall was His Imperial and Royal Highness Eugen von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and cousin of Franz Josef. Among the field pieces which clattered Eugen, many were seen to exceed the 5.5 inch calibre to which Austria is limited by the Treaty of St. Germain. The big surprise to most Austrians, who thought they possessed no treaty-banned battle planes, came when 15 big bombers oi the latest type suddenly thundered into view circled and dipped in salute to Imperial Eugen...
Runner-up was John Upley, blacksmith, onetime engraver & decorator at the Rolls-Royce plant at Springfield, Mass., who valued a painting of a hangover at $1,000 the square inch...
...stranger than usual. Oxford, with the heaviest boat in history (183 lb.), outweighed Cambridge 3 lb. to a slide. Oxford's 200-lb. No. 4, P. R. S. Bankes, who rowed so hard in practice that he broke five oars, was given an oar with a half inch less leverage and a 6-inch blade. Furthermore, by a sporting arrangement which U. S. rowing coaches would find strange. Peter Haig-Thomas, whom experts held responsible for the string of Cambridge victories, this year changed sides, coached the Oxford boat...