Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...estimated that three feet of snow and four and a half feet of slush have fallen in Cambridge since the first snow storm in December...
...Biard prize at Princeton of $100 is awarded to R. W. Mason. This gentleman, who has the misfortune to be a hunchback, and is not four feet in height, has succeded in capturing both First Junior Orator prize last commencement and now the First Biard prize for oratory, and he is, moreover, the first man in Princeton College who ever took both these prizes...
...respects like real water, and to obviate this difficulty there hasbeen constructed a tank which is to be filled with real Lake Saltonstall or rather Lake Whitney water of just about the same consistency and specific gravity as that of the River Thames. The tank is 60 feet long by 35 feet in width and there will be about three feet of water when the crew are engaged in practice. It will be ready this week...
...gently sloping hill that leads down from President Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this well-worn slide and turn the prows of their sleds toward the side of the hill that slopes...
Princeton is to have a toboggan slide on the field this side of the University Athletic Grounds. The slide will be forty feet high and one hundred and sixty feet long...