Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which but four are Sophomores. No one of these has been regularly on the first string in practice, although Leavitt White, captain of last year's yearling quintet, has been pushing Dan Comfort hard for a berth on the starting five. Bill Gray, six-foot seven inch Freshman center of yesteryear, has the substitute center position to himself, and is expected to see considerable action...
...Boston one day last week officials of Provident Institution for Savings watched the 30-ton door of their bank vault ponderously close and lock. A motor compressor forced air into the vault through a ventilator until a pressure-gauge climbed to 4 Ib. per square inch over atmospheric pressure. At that level the gauge stood still nearly an hour after the air input had stopped. A valve was then opened and the compressed air wheezed...
...Coach Fesler kept any combinations together in practice. He has two quintets at his disposal, a fall one, featured by Captain Dick Boys and the 6 foot, 5 inch Sophomore Ernest A. Gray, Jr. '37, and a fast one which stars Richard C. Erust '36 and George V. D. Comfort '36, who has returned from football, together with Graham K. Spring '36 and Richard G. Fletcher...
...stars are actually counted from plates taken by small three-inch telescopes, which cover 16 square degrees of the heavens on each plate. The plates are then divided into quarter-inch squares, and the observer looks through a pair of binoculars to count the images within each square, finding as, many as three or four hundred in each. In this work, the large telescopes are useless since the greatest area it is possible to photograph with a 100-inch instrument is about one-tenth of a square degree...
...vice presidents, Paul Gray Hoffman, an able salesmanager who first made a fortune for himself as a distributor in California, and Harold S. Vance, in charge of production. With Ashton Bean of White, they formed a triumvirate of receivers who never let their organization slip an inch...