Word: quarter-inch
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...really so wild. "You don't go around ripping off your clothes or anything." one coed says. Typically, one recent evening in a darkened Cambridge apartment near Harvard, two girls and two boys lounged around a candle, smoked four joints (each three inches long and less than a quarter-inch thick) in 21 hours. At first they chattered animatedly about what records to play: Charlie Parker won out over a Bach B Minor Mass, and the sound track from Black Orpheus over Charlie Mingus. Then the smokers lapsed into sporadic metaphors and banalities. They pepped up briefly...
Most of the tenants seemed unconcerned by the quarter-inch fissure, a sample poll revealed...
Insects have a long list of ingenious means for fending off predators. They go in for camouflage coloring and offensive odors; in some cases they even mimic other insects that their enemy has no taste for. But few match the imaginative arsenal of the litt1e (quarter-inch long) Stenodus beetle, which has a defense mechanism as sophisticated as tomorrow's anti-missile missile. Attacked by a water strider, a fast, long-legged bug that is its customary nemesis, the Stenodus simply squirts out a charge of fluid detergent from a pair of abdominal glands. The detergent destroys the thin...
...Fencing [April 3] is not only an athletic feat; it is an art, a skill, a fierce and fast-precision thing with judgments and reactions timed to the quarter-inch...
...edges of the flesh, and the jagged ends of blood vessels, nerves and tendons had to be trimmed back. To give themselves room, the Chinese surgeons did something that their American colleagues consider very clever. They cut back the bones on each side of the break for almost a quarter-inch, thus preparing clean, smooth surfaces for joining...