Word: inch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news that Huang carried in a five-inch-thick sheaf of papers for the government was grim. At Acting President Li Tsung-jen's big grey brick house, Nationalist leaders conferred until 2 a.m. Exhausted and ill with high blood pressure, Envoy Huang went to bed. It was no wonder. The Communists did not want peace-they demanded surrender. Their eight points of last January had been expanded by 24 supplementary requests. Most crucial: the Nationalists must allow Red armies to cross the Yangtze...
...cockpit was barely big enough for him. Behind him, cramming most of the fuselage, were thick-walled tanks of "lox" (liquid oxygen) and alcohol. Tucked away in odd places, even under his feet, were heavy flasks of nitrogen gas compressed to 4,500 Ibs. a square inch. The windshield (of glass, rather than plastic, so it would not melt from air friction) was too small to give much visibility. From all sides, and above and below, a bristle of controls, dials and warning lights pressed on the pilot's seat...
...installing the new 15,000 volt transformers to carry the added load of the Physics Lab's cyclotron. But the most spectacular of the department's functions is the heating of Harvard buildings. Steam for over 180 buildings is brought from the Cambridge Electric Light Co. through two 19-inch pipes while a third one carries returning water. These pipes run through four miles of underground tunnels...
...citizens hurried uneasily into the great cathedral and prayed. Others just looked up to the sky and grinned. Children pulled off shoes and pattered gaily in tiny puddles along bustling Jiron Union. Newspapers dusted off their big wooden headline type. Rain had come to Lima. It was only .08 inch (in 90 minutes) but it was the first rainfall in Peru's capital in five years, and the heaviest since a .12-inch shower...
...foot, four-inch, 230 pound transfer student from Notre Dame, where he was first string end, Guthrie started out playing end here. Art Valpey shifted him to tackle when he reported for practice in September and after the Army game, tried Guthrie out at defensive...