Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacation. It was marred by airplane trouble. His plane came down once at Rantoul, Ill., another landed him at Waterloo, Iowa. There, in the hippodrome of the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress, 4,500 farmers and farm women gave him a hand as his white shoes waded through the inch-thick dust on the dirt floor to put him before the microphone. Save for paying his compliments to Germany (see p. 9), he delivered a mild defense of NRA: "When anybody tells you that NRA and the Blue Eagle have not done for the farmer all that he hoped...
...insulator a half-inch thick flew into pieces...
...whole afternoon minutely examining a vast moated palace as grotesquely strange as some of the temples of Siam. "Really, you know." said King Prajadhipok. "I am very interested." In the visitors' book His Majesty dashed off a modest squiggle. less than a third the size of the eight-inch-wide VON HINDENBURG written by the President with a special monster pen which he carries for public autographing...
...York a surgeon made an incision from front to back of Carl Meyer's head, lifted the flap, removed an inch-long tumor from his brain. Numb with local anesthesia, Carl Meyer held up a mirror, took a good long look inside his cranium...
Last fortnight Herald Tribune readers found in the rotogravure section a half-page advertisement of R. H. Macy & Co. offering men's white broadcloth shirts at $1.69 and linen dish towels at 17?. Attached to the picture of the shirt was a two-inch sample of white broadcloth; to the picture of the dishtowel, a square of green-striped linen...