Word: feet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must be rowed on the ebb tide and within two hours of high water. The course must be marked by a central line of buoys situated at each half mile point and either boat may be disqualified, if, at any point during the race it approach to within ten feet, or be distant more than a hundred feet from the central line. This is a most important rule, providing, as it does, that the two boats must always be twenty feet apart, and locating the fault beyond a doubt, if either crew fouls the other. A start is unfair...
Canoe wanted. - A ceda canoe, 12 to 15 feet long by 26 to 32 inches wide. Address, giving description and price, Canoe, P. O. Box 1864, Boston...
...building will have a frontage of eighty feet on Elm street, and will extend on High street to a depth of one hundred and twenty five feet. If the subscriptions warrant, it will be built of rough brown stone with trimmings of a lighter material, and will have three stories and a basement...
...basement will contain the bath rooms, dressing-rooms, the hydraulic machines, bowling alleys, sleeping apartments for the janitor, and a large swimming tank, in dimensions forty-seven by twenty-four feet. There is also room on this floor for about two hundred and fifty lockers, in the event of their being needed...
...story will be the base-ball cage, which will be ninety-seven by twenty-eight feet. The cage will be lighted from above and from the sides. The space on either side of the cage for about twelve feet will be devoted to a shaft for transmitting the light to the main exercise hall and to the cage. This is regarded as one of the distinctive features of the lighting arrangements, for while other gymnasiums are lighted by the side windows only, the new gymnasium will have both the side light and the light from the roof...