Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Denmark's elongated King, Christian X, dislikes hitches. Things can never run too smoothly to suit the precise mind of the six-foot-five-inch ruler, and yet recently a number of annoying little accidents have happened to His Majesty. A fat Frenchman fell over his feet in the theatre at Cannes (TIME, Feb. 25). He paid a State Visit to Madrid, only to have the Queen-Mother of Spain die suddenly (TIME, Feb. 18). So it has gone. Last week King Christian returned to Denmark from the Riviera, determined that if possible, this voyage should be uneventful...
...applaud the "horrors of war" story; it is, the fashion nowadays. But those who soldiered under General Neville have a secret conviction that it was worth the "horrors" to watch him in action. Every inch a man,-and quite a few inches...
...strange gift," says Sculptor Barnard, "comes to perhaps one man in many thousands. He obeyed the laws of gravity with uncanny instinct, toiled always with supreme patience, and was one of the finest characters I have ever known. He could judge by his eye, to the fraction of an inch, if a statue weighing tons was off balance. . . Some day I hope to do something in the way of a memorial...
...regard to the determination of stress and the development of more resistant metals, Mr. Stone said that whereas in 1910 the greatest stress which could be allowed in a generator was 10,000 pounds per square inch, at present it is 20,000 pounds per square inch. "This improvement," he said, is due to the work of metallurgists and to the photoelastic determination of stress. This latter method, which is very complex, involves the rotation by mechanical stress, of a light beam in a plane of polarization. The effect is similar to that of double refraction. Straining the medium between...
...fights. It passed a soldier bonus bill over Mr. Coolidge's veto. It passed the Mellon tax plan, much retailored to the Democratic figure. It stirred up the greatest hornet nest of a political generation, the Harding scandals -Oil, Veterans' Bureau, Department of Justice, Prohibition Enforcement-which, inch by inch, forced Denby, then Daugherty out of the Coolidge Cabinet...