Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grunsky of the California Academy of Science died last week just before he was to suggest that, if all mankind cooperated, they might dig a hole through the 200 miles of earth's crust and tap tremendous heat and gas imprisoned under 900,000 Ib. pressure per square inch...
...Berlin six foot two inch Dr. Hanfstaengl has the official job of Nazi Party spokesman to British and U. S. correspondents. During the nerve-wracking weeks of Nazi revolution he kept alert with a green bottle of smelling salts, taking great whiffs and passing the bottle freely to friends. Serene and rested last week he carried no salts, admitted that he often plays the piano for Hitler but denied the story that he does so whenever the Chancellor is tired. "If that were so I should be playing a great deal!" cried Nazi Hanfstaengl, "for he is tired often...
...applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...
...bought 101 machine guns, 85 wheels for mountain artillery, various other odds & ends. Paraguay bought 5,000,000 rifle cartridges. Peru, which last week agreed to drop its impending war with Colombia over the Leticia territory (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933-et seq.) had laid in 1,200 three-inch shells, eight rangefinders and a few cases of machine gun cartridges. Further to impress his adversary Yahya the Imam of Yemen. King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia had just put in an order for 2,000,000 British rifle cartridges...
...Nashville, Tenn. grocery counter walked an unknown man. He looked down at the penny-candy showcase, at the orange jelly stars, at foot-long black ropes of licorice, at mauve-brown tootsie rolls, at chocolate bottles of syrupy liqueurs, at inch-square cubes of yellow honeycombed sponge molasses. The man sighed, cleared his voice huskily: "Thirty-five years ago I stole two of your penny candies. It's been bothering me ever since. This is the least my conscience will let me give you.'' He laid a $5 bill on the counter, walked away...