Word: width
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chalk Age of 100,000,000 years ago, when the dinosaurs reached their lurid climax before extinction, there lived in the sea shallows a big mollusk, Inoceramus, with a shell width up to four feet. Inoceramus was not much different from modern oysters, made pearls the same way-surrounding a foreign irritant inside its shell with concentric layers of the calcium-carbon-oxygen compound called nacre...
...TIME presents a map of the strategic geography of northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia. Between the two lies the Red Sea, no mean body of water. It is approximately 1,500 miles long, roughly half as long as the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans. But with its width (up to 250 miles) it is the size of 50 Mississippis...
...length is 300 paces, and its width eight paces; so that ten mounted men can, without inconvenience, ride abreast." So wrote young Marco Polo after he first saw the bridge of Lukouchiao in the year 1277. But this same bridge, still standing and now named for the Venetian traveler, will be more remembered in history for a fateful incident which happened one hot, fretful summer night, 660 years later...
...time the procession had turned into Dunster Street it was over 100 yards in length and filled the entire width of the narrow road. Passing through the Square it headed toward the Common and Radcliffe, gaining still more strength as Freshmen left their Yard halls to join the throng...