Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...green in 2. Picard was seven feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, watched it sink out of sight. Nelson was five feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, but it did not sink out of sight. By a quarter-of-an-inch margin, Henry Picard earned $1,100 and became the leading money-winning pro of the year (with...
Adventurer Miller tells how boys' noses are bored to take inch-wide bamboo plugs in each nostril, how a native village smells two days' travel away ("an acrid odor . . . like smoke from a bonfire of rubber boots"), how a trail-cutter can die from a cobra bite before hitting the ground. His accounts of jungle sex are more colorful if less accurate than an anthropologist's. For squeamish readers there is always the dedication: "To Mother...
...more years to manufacture and market the new glass in quantity. Then, they predict, it will be used in industry and in households wherever heat-resistant glass is needed. Expansion of the new glass under heat is imperceptible - three times less than the expansion of the great 200-inch telescope mirror which Corning cast for Caltech. When the next big piece of astronomical glass is made, preshrunk glass will probably be used...
...female, causes the male fungus to put out shoots. The shoots produce Hormone B, which goes back to the female, initiates the growth of egg-containers. The egg-containers manufacture Hormone C, which attracts the male shoots so that contact is effected (up to ranges of one-third inch). Hormone D, from the male shoots, stops the growth of the female egg-containers when they are of proper size...
...Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, Dr. Strock told how he used inexpensive vitallium for making successful peg teeth. Into the gaping socket of a willing patient, who was first given a local anesthetic, he inserted a vitallium screw, working it into the jawbone about five-eighths of an inch just as a carpenter screws into wood. To his delight, new bone tissue soon closed tightly around the screw, and the patient was able to chew comfortably with the protruding head. After several months, Dr. Strock cemented a handsome false tooth shell, known as a porcelain jacket crown...