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...remodeled" currency is made about one-quarter inch shorter than normal bills, Marckini said, so that the counterfeiters can make 12 bills...
...damage, but a heavier weapon is far worse. One of Captain Duffy's patients used a .38, which broke his leg and left it partly paralyzed after 48 days in the hospital. Another used a .45. and the massive slug drove three coins in his pocket an inch deep into his thigh...
...John Thomas beat him for the first time in eight tries. Thomas was not around for the N.Y.A.C. meet, but Brumel gave him something to think about anyway. Brumel skimmed 7 ft. 2 in., then called for the bar to be lifted to 7 ft. 4 in., a half-inch better than the indoor record he set himself two years ago. Brumel bounded toward the pit and took off. The bar never even quivered-he cleared it by a good inch. "It's too bad John was not here,'' said Brumel. "We both do better with competition...
...began by building an unusually strong magnet, a slice of ceramic material sandwiched between flat plates of soft steel. With the steel focusing its lines of magnetic force in much the same manner that a small lens strengthens a spotlight beam, one of Radus' ceramic sandwiches only an inch square can exert a pull of some 30 lbs. The problem-to make it let go. If a few turns of wire are wrapped around the sandwich, and a small current is sent through the coil for a fraction of a second, most of the pulling power switches...
...while the Bluebells perform). Presumably acting on the theory that a good big girl is better than a good little girl, Miss Kelly long ago decided that no Bluebell could be less than 5 ft. 8 in. Some hit 6 ft. 4 in., and when got up in four-inch hairpiece and four-inch heels they look like ambulatory Christmas trees...