Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lick of California donated $700,000 for the purchase of a telescope that should surpass all others. The lens for that telescope is now completed, having the unparalleled aperture of 36 inches. An observatory has been build upon Mount Hamilton near San Jose, at an altitude of over 4000 feet, to form a suitable site for which 40,000 tons of the hardest granite had to be removed. The lens will rest upon silver supports in an iron box until the steel dome and the mountings are finished. It is expected that everything will be perfected by next September, when...
...rope down upon a chalk-mark on the floor, both teams were told to "get ready," and at the word, the rope was released, and they sprang back with a jump, heaving all together. Whichever team had the most perfect system of heaves generally won, bracing their feet on the rosined floor. Tricks were constantly devised to throw the opposite team off its balance and drag them across; these pulls were said to be as exciting as the severest pulls to-day, but a much greater element of luck entered into them...
After the Hemenway gymnasium had entered on its second year, cleats were introduced for the feet, and the object became, as it is at present, to gain the most rope possible during five minutes. All the four men lay on the rope, raising with a spring, as if to get a new drop, when they heaved. In the out-door pulls, the teams burrowed holes for their feet, pulling furiously, and covered with dust...
...Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly in our seats, while the steward's satellites are revelling in a symposium beneath our very feet? We have in vain tried to get the directors to change our own fare for the better; some inseparable obstacle has always stood in the way; so, it is perhaps too much to expect them to intercede for the waiters, who have certainly been ill-treated: but the ten o'clock symposiums...
...also said that "Flying Childers" ran 1-2 mile in 20 sec. His stride or leap was measured and found to be a trifle over thirty feet. He was never known to cover less that 25 ft. at every stride...