Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Guiana Boundary Question." He began by describing the physical characteristics of the country. The coast for fifty miles inland is a low marshy country, suited for the cultivation of sugar. There it begins to slope up till it reaches at its highest point a height of 6000 feet above sea level...
Plans have been prepared for a new dormitory building, which are to be submitted to the corporation. The question respecting the erection of the building has not yet been decided. The matter will be dependent on their action. The plans call for a dormitory 120 feet long by 46 feet wide and five stories in height, not including a high studded basement. It is roughly estimated that the new structure will cost about...
...huge Dinosaurs and other strange reptilian forms that populated the earth at that period. The central attraction is a magnificent cast of an Iguanodon (the only one in this country) after the original in the Brussels Museum. This was a creature of gigantic dimensions, measuring at least thirty-five feet in length. It walked on its hind legs and used its fore feet for grasping prey, while its tail served as a support. The history of these most remarkable creatures shows that they developed from a diminutive type, gradually attained their maximum proportions, and dwindled again to an insignificant size...
Davis, the oarsman and inventor of rowing apparatus, has received an order from Yale for an eight-oar shell, to be built at the Detroit Boat Works, and is to be fitted with all the latest patented Davis appliances. It is reported that the new shell is 68 feet long, beam 20 inches and depth 10 inches...
...events, which are all scratch, are as follows: 40 yards hurdles (3 hurdles, 31/2 feet high); potato race (8 potatoes, 2 yards apart); fence vault; putting 16 pound shot; 35 yards dash: pole vault; running high jump; 35 yards dash (novice). The entries close on March...