Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...yards dash-Moen, scratch; Baker 6 feet, Sternberg 4, Hawes 4, Rothchilds 8, Hale 7, Mullins 8, Carr 8, Downes 5, Lee 1, Wright 4, Crosby 4, Green...
...History department of the college from the Secretary of the Interior that all persons desiring a map of the United States may obtain one from the Interior department by paying $1.25 which is the cost of publication. These maps have been published recently and are 5.5 x 6.5 feet. They are on paper backed by muslin and are intended for wall maps. No one person is allowed more than one map. Remit by postal note or money order payable to the Disbersing Clerk, Dep't. of Interior, Washington...
...largest collection of mounds is the Turner group which contains the famous Large Mound. This is made very carefully and of many kinds of material, the foundation being a circle of stone one hundred feet in diameter, firled in with burnt clay, over which is a layer of mixed iron and gravel packed into a solid mass like concrete. This gravel made a floor for the support of two altars. That the mound was used exclusively for religious rites is certain from the fact that after some great religious festival in which thousands of treasures of all kinds were heaped...
...altar, the oval and the serpent, are the three symbols of Asiatic religious rites, and that these mound builders crossed the Pacific ocean from Asia is a fact that has already been proved almost beyond a doubt. The serpent's body is twelve hundred and fifty-four feet long, following all the curves, five feet high and about twenty feet broad. Near all of the larger mounds are numerous graves from which have been taken quantities of ornaments which have thrown almost as much light on the life and religious belief of these ancient people as the mounds themselves...
...plans for the new Yale gymnasium are completed. In the basement, which will be the heaviest ever built in New Haven, will be situated two rowing tanks, each 24 x 52 feet, and the swimming tank, 25 x 50 feet. Three bowling alleys, twelve bath rooms, and the steam heating apparatus will occupy the rest of the basement. On the first floor will be the large vestibule, trophy room, rooms fitted with shower baths, and a massage room. The main gymnasium room will be on the second floor, and the running track will be suspended between this floor...