Word: width
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed that the entire body, from head to toes, had been pummeled and beaten, on the ears and neck, forehead and temples, arms, hands, chest,' kidneys, thighs, legs. Scarcely a spot was untouched; hardly a blood vessel intact. The doctors noted that many a bruise was the exact width of a police club...
Between them lies a 14-ft. width of no man's land. Within the wire, the POWs wait through their days: sullen, unreconstructed Nazis, cheerful Italians. Among the guests: several Italian generals...
Colonel Were, who began his work last year, has been using ten feet to a mile so that the over-all length is about eight yards with a width of two yards. The contour interval is 20 feet, allowing accurate elevations on the model. Colonel Ware has used a ply-wood base which he has covered with special cloth. Lightly sprinkled over the cloth is sand and artificial grass which makes a puff or hole when an shell lands...
...from spent on Guadalcanal. The Japs had planned a pincer; they would probably not abandon their plan easily, and early this week they made new landings to try to carry it out. But, far from crunching in on Henderson Field, they had seen the U.S. beachhead expand its width within the jaws of their pincer from eight miles to 16 miles...
Almost every conceivable measurement from the length of a man's nose to the width of his feet is recorded by Dr. Carl C. Seltzer, the anthropologist. The student's height, standing up, sitting, and lying down are noted, as well as his lung capacity...