Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distance between the arches of the new bridge over the Charles river will be 105 feet, and at high water there will be at least 11 feet between the water and the bridge...
George M. Gray, of the New York Athletic Club, has beaten all former records by putting the shot 43 feet 11 inches...
...school needs about five million dollars to set it well upon its feet, and to make it the great university it is destined to be. But those millions are sure to come, as others have come, because these live men believe in that practical sense which vigorously abandons the methods of the darker ages and faces the future. The administration of President Eliot, when it is concluded, will stand as monument to commemorate this American genius for college building...
...science. Nobody here gives the name "religion" to that dead forest of theology whose dry limbs are cracking and falling with every vigorous wind that stirs. And nobody has done more than the clergy to free old Harvard from certain false theories as to study which fettered her young feet quite as sorely as any false theology ever tied her hands...
Work for the base-ball cage at Princeton has been commenced. It is to be of wood with windows in the top and will be 150 feet long and 60 feet wide...