Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kernel of each story without carefully reading every word from start to finish. As I haven't the time for such laborious reading, weeks and months slip by without my getting past the first three or four pages of each issue. . . . The foregoing criticism applies only to the longer yarns-I find the shorter squibs quite unobjectionable...
...wrist pins for piston rods, etc.) are accurate only within one ten-thousandth of an inch, Director Briggs said: "Industry from a practical standpoint will not realize that a change has been made because the change is too small." Not discussed was the effect of a shortened inch on longer measurements: A mile would be approximately ⅛ inch shorter, the U. S. would measure 31 feet 2 inches wider...
Jupiter: Never admit a mistake, son, or you won't be a god any longer...
...only state with which Germany has no desire to cooperate," declared the Chancellor, "for Soviet Russia is trying to Bolshevize the world. If England was really anxious to defend the status quo, she would energetically oppose the Bolshevization of other countries, for such Bolshevized regions are no longer self-governing states but only sections of the revolutionary Moscow centre. I know Mr. Eden does not share this view! Stalin does and openly admits it." (See p. 17.) The Chancellor, having thus pinched the sorest point he could find, devoted a conciliatory part of his speech to announcing that: 1) Germany...
...have burgeoned with ushers in white, microphones, colored charts and pictures to illustrate the theology of the I AM Presence. Mr. Ballard dresses nattily, Mrs. Ballard, a handsome blonde, wears jewels and evening dress. They now hand out envelopes labeled I AM, Love Gift, and explain that they no longer deny to their followers the right to make contributions...