Word: mm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although modern freethinkers have gibed that the extant pieces, put together, would be as big as a battleship, in 1870 a French savant named Rohault de Fleury catalogued the known relics of the Cross, found that their total bulk was less than 4,000,000 cu. mm. By his calculations, the Cross measured 178,000,000 cu. mm...
...Mm-oh, I see-huh-nice goin', swivel hips...
...reached the car and passed the chocolate to the man in the driver's seat a 75 mm. shrapnel shell burst right beside him with a deafening roar. A steel splinter drove through 'his back, killing him instantly. The man beside him crumpled up mortally wounded. Of the two men in the rear seat one writhed with a shattered leg, the other was barely hurt. Before the occupants of the other cars could reach their friends, a second shell, which did little damage, threw them flat on their faces...
...artillery firing Alfred M. Torrielli, '38, Joseph Franklin, '38, and William P. Bittenbender, '37, distinguished themselves by their ability to conduct the fire of the 75 mm Guns...
INSIDE OUT-An Introduction to Autobiography-Sheridan House ($5). A book about autobiographies (410 of them in 23 languages), indispensable to libraries, for whom it is available in microfilm as well as book form. In microfilm, this 713-page, 5-lb. volume, is only 48 feet of 16 mm. film (the width of home cinema film) reeled into a spool the size of a typewriter ribbon, with its tin container weighs one-quarter pound. Microfilm copies of rare books are used in many libraries; this is the first new book to be issued in that form...