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Word: inched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...border peace and mutual confidence "are unattainable by other provisional measures." After asserting these squatter rights, Chou blandly declared that China is so big a country, and so sparsely settled in half of its area, that it would be "extremely ludicrous" to suspect that Peking would "encroach one inch upon foreign territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What Chou Wants | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...casting Susse employs a sand found only in the Seine basin, which becomes almost doughy when moist. It is best for highly polished surfaces. The sculpture is solidly packed with sand, which is then baked dry to make a mold. A second mold is also fashioned, roughly one-eighth inch smaller than the original mold. The molds, shaped in halves, are placed one inside the other and then joined. Finally molten bronze is poured into the thin space left empty between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Famed Foundry | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

With a 52 ft., 3 1/4 in. performance, Crimson shot putter Sarge Nichols broke the University record by a quarter-inch, and established an indoor mark, a meet record, and a Briggs Cage standard as well. Key Kean soared 6 ft., 3 3/4 in. in the high jump to tie the Harvard record and set marks for University indoor performance, the Cage, and the meet...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Team Crushes B.U., 81-28; Doten, Nichols Set New Standards | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...Inch Scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Because most of them are still wet, the pictures in Appel's latest Amsterdam show hang high out of reach of inquiring fingers. To demonstrate their wetness last week, the museum curator, who admires the artist, thrust one thumb into an inch-thick gob of red. "Appel doesn't mind," he reassured his visitor, smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Appel | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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