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...bear was nine feet. one inch. in length. and its skull measured almost 27 inches across...
...missions has no such capability. It is perfect for propaganda shots in Life magazine and fine for geological work on the moon, but it is too small to provide enough detail for improved mapping. Three NASA advisory groups have recommended that a larger, aerial mapping camera with a 9-inch square negative be adopted at a cost of only a few thousand dollars more, but the agency appears satisfied with what one cartographer called "snapshots taken out the window like a tourist." or at least it has not budgeted additional funds for better mapping gear...
...last week interest rates on short-term Government notes jumped to still another record high. Example: 6½% on a $356 million issue of New York State tax-free notes. The prices of many industrial materials-among them copper, nickel, steel pipe, chlorine and abrasive powders-also continued to inch upward, promising subsequent increases in the cost of the goods and services that consumers...
...while, CRIMSON editors treated their new quarters more kindly than successive generations would, and the paper was certainly kind to them in the first few successful years on Plympton Street. But it was too good to last, and the edition of April 5, 1917, announced with three-inch box-car headlines...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME." in inch-high scrawls-it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read to us your illegible scrawls-we can (officially) read anything and we may be married...