Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five feet ten inches he stands in his naked feet. Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16½, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16½, reach 74?complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent...
...would gladly let him represent me, were I an American, but I'm not even after 35 years residence here. (This is not my fault but my misfortune. I took out first papers, but when I wanted the second I was deterred by certain red tape methods. I have since found out, however, that my information had been given wrongly at a naturalization bureau...
...which he said the bill would require and which he declared would bring about chaos in industry: Grocers would have to get new scales, new measures (to take the place of peck, bushel, quart); housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch collar becoming 405 millimeters...
...rising up his spine. A man came and sat next to him-very agitated-on the park bench ... on the bench . . . bench. Of course, a "bench" was a symbolical term for a branch of the Government. He furtively slipped his hand under the seat, felt a piece of adhesive tape. The tape was supporting some small, cold, metallic object. He wrenched it loose, the Evening World's "magic key," and returned to the Pulitzer Building. There he explained to Douglas Fairbanks-who had been retained for the occasion to hand out the $1,000-what sheer luck it was that...
...felt during the H-D-C meet in Mechanics Building last year were duplicated on Saturday night, when the spectators rocked the structure with their cheers as Kane, anchor man on the University relay team, overcame a decisive lead and flashed past a sprinting Dartmouth runner to break the tape a winner in the last event of the meet. The win in the relay brought the Crimson score to 59 points, just two more than the combined scores made by the second place Dartmouth squad, with 30 1/2 points and the Ithacan athletes, who finished third with 26 1/2 points...