Word: inched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where the cops can't hear you yell," forced to drink a mixture of a searing hot sauce compounded with pepper and garlic and ordered to smoke a handful of cigars, inhaling every puff. After he vomited, the "hackers" went to work, whacked him 50 times with an inch-thick paddle. "Some of the kids give themselves shots of Novocain," Chuck reported, "but that just hurts worse when it wears...
...John C. Trever, of the International Council of Religious Education, announced that one of them was almost certainly the lost Book of Lamech, mentioned in medieval Greek lists of apocryphal books of the Bible. Because of the difficulty of unwrapping the fragile leather, only a four-by-eight-inch fragment containing 26 lines has been studied so far. The snippet, says Dr. Trever, seems to be a discussion between Noah's father, Lamech, his mother, Bithenosh, and his grandfather, Methuselah, about their ark-building offspring...
...Palomar's Hale telescope, is back in shape again. Observatory Director Dr. Ira S. Bowen announced last week that the mirror, which was taken out for repolishing last May, has been tested on the stars and pronounced O.K. In places as much as 20 millionths of an inch of glass was polished off. Next step will be to cover the mirror with its shining coat of aluminum. Dr. Bowen hopes the big telescope will be hunting nebulae again by the first of the year...
...back he went, meticulously making the notes which were a guide to him through all the legal labyrinths of the trial and which, before he was through, filled a two-inch-thick notebook. In the end, the indefatigable man was able to present his long, cool and collected charge to the jury and then catch the lawyers for the defense flat-footed by sentencing them on the very next day. Said he afterward: "They didn't think I'd have the time to prepare the charges against them...
Much has been made of the fact that the Big Green deprived of the entire side of its line through graduation and other calamities. This may be so, but the fact remains that they still sport a left end Dave Beeman, as six foot, five inch, 205-pound end who has been a letterman for two years; Ted Eberle, a tackly who filled in behind Johnny Jenkins last year; and Jim Mclville, another 205 pound, two letter man, at guard...