Word: inched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dudley Allen Buck, 32, exuberant M.I.T. electrical engineer and miniaturization expert, who developed the tiny cryotron to replace the transistor, was working on a cross-film cryotron (diameter: four-millionths of an inch) that would reduce a computer from room to matchbox size; of virus pneumonia; in Winchester, Mass...
...against Dublin-born Samuel (Waiting for Godot) Beckett, he deserves full marks for consistency. Having decided that life is a hapless, hopeless thing, he goes right on repeating his message. His latest novel to be published in the U.S. (it was written in 1953) does not back off an inch from the chasm. Watt is a worthy literary companion to such other Beckett anti-heroes as Murphy, Malone and Mahood. Like them, he does not have a chance, and does not really want...
Only a year ago, almost every available inch of wall space in Algiers sang the praise of Charles de Gaulle, but last week, on the first anniversary of his being called to power, the city was in a different mood. Though 50,000 people gathered in the forum to hear speeches, they were mostly Moslems, whom the French soldiers can mobilize for shows with quiet efficiency. "Shout ' Algerie Franfaise!'" cried an officer from a psychological-warfare unit, but he got only feeble response. Behind him a captain rattled off a steady stream of orders to his men scattered...
...Phelps Stokes Jr., Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts, who learned about Frontier College from Fellow Yaleman Ben Spock, was a teacher in an Ontario construction camp in 1928. Recalls Bishop Stokes (who answered to the camp tag, "Slim"): "I asked the carpenter boss, 'Can I have some 18-inch spreaders?' He answered: 'Young man, I think you mean, "May I have some 18-inch spreaders...
...Weld North Military Committee claimed the world's first successful rocket nose cone recovery yesterday, retrieving a 25-inch silver-and-red metallic object and its parachute from atop a tree between Weld and Widener...