Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chewer. A spittoon, into which he sends two streams of juice every five minutes, sits close to his desk on the Senate floor. Another Smith habit is whittling anything he puts his hands on. In 15 years in the same Senate seat he has cut a hole about an inch square in the arm of his chair. As an orator he is given to long words, not always correctly used, and Latin legalisms (hence his nickname). He often talks With a mouthful of tobacco which gives him a "hot-potato" enunciation. On the Senate floor he is an almost indefatigable...
...also far more serious than the public had been led to believe. Parts of two ribs were cut away, to make a hole an inch and one-half in diameter (nearly the size of a golf ball) directly into the abscess, leaving the abscess completely exposed...
...military advisor to rapacious, barbaric old Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, father of the present Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-Liang. Since Old Chang waged most of his wars from Mukden-and finally died there when his armored train was dynamited-the doughty General Sutton knows every inch of Manchuria's prospective battlefields and also the calibre and equipment of Chinese and Russian troops. Sought out in London, last week, where he is living in retirement, General Sutton authoritatively said: "The Manchurian Army, with which I was actively associated for five years, during which it virtually conquered...
...depth of 324 feet, water pressure is 140 pounds to the square inch, enough to crush a man's lungs. Though seasoned divers in specially constructed suits have reached a depth of 300 ft. they can only work there ten minutes at a time before exhaustion sets in. Despite these difficulties, a grim circle of British warships and tenders lay to all week about the buoy that marked the grave of the #47. Boatloads of seasick reporters tossed on the grey waters of St. George's Channel waiting for news. Long after it was apparent that there would...
...weighs 50 pounds and the shackles are fastened almost rigidly by bending them over the bar with a hammer. The weight is so great that those who wear the device attach a rope to both ends of the bar to keep it off the ground when shuffling inch by inch across the floor. If no rope is available a tobacco box or little block of wood may be placed under it in the center to do service as a caster...