1-12th - Word in Context

Updated: May 15, 2025

The slate was not held close to the table, but in a slanting position, so that a space of perhaps four or five inches was left between the edge of the slate farthest removed from the table and the table itself. A piece of pencil, broken from a small pencil about 1-16th to 1-12th in. cross section, was laid on the slate.
University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism - Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism : In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert