Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Selections from the German Mystics, Personal Idealism and Mysticism, Types of Christian Saintliness, Speculum Animae, speaking last week to the Sunlight League, took note of Continental nudism and said: "There is nothing objectionable in it, but it is a matter of convention." He recited this limerick: Half an inch, half an inch shorter. The same skirts for mother and for daughter, When the wind blows, everything shows. Both what should and what hadn't oughter...
Cousins Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, publishers of the strident Chicago Tribune, gave themselves and each other a Christmas present last week, five years in advance. In the Tribune, over both their signatures [magnified to seven-inch lengths], they published an "estimate" of what their national nickel-weekly Liberty is going to do by way of circulation in the next few years. Always forthright, they made this "estimate" in open comparison to Liberty's staid senior in the nickel-weekly field, The Saturday Evening Post. Always cheerful, their present to themselves was to show, on a graph...
...Hoover; to explain, as one economist to another, just what the Young Plan of readjusted reparations means to the U. S., as to world peace. First to bestow formal Kudos upon Hero Young was the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which last week voted him one of its three annual three-inch golden Distinguished Service Medals...
Suddenly from the rocks behind and above came the smash of rifle fire. Soldiers fell. Hastily the French commander flung out a skirmish line, halted the advance. His little patrol was completely ambushed by 3,000 ragged, bearded, fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule...
Joshua Crane of Brookline, Mass., used a putter with a 15-inch shaft, accurately, with only one hand...