Word: feet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...marble floor in the center of which stands a beautiful oak table. Around the sides of the room are a number of handsome chairs matching the table. Just at the entrance to the room an immense stag's head has been hung. The room itself is about forty feet...
...other requisite materials for food. The root increases in thickness, the branches contunue their growth until this intruder actually crowds out of existence the tree upon which it first began to grow. These roots, thus growing in the air, attain sometimes great size; logs from twenty to fifty feet in length and four feet square are obtained in large quantities. The magnificent specimens obtained by the University are respectively four and four and one-half feet in diameter...
Work has begun on a new board running track which will be located behind the gymnasium, between the Law School and the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The track will be six feet in width, and there will be six laps to the mile. The building of the track, although in the hands of the athletic committee, will be under the supervision of Mr. Lathrop...
...home of the ape and gorilla is in the big forest, three thousand miles long and twenty-five hundred miles wide, situate in the equatorial regions of Africa. In this forest are trees some one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, and others even five hundred feet in height. Under these is the vast jungle, impenetrable except as one follows the path of the natives form tribe to tribe...
...museum will have a front of about 115 feet, and equal depth, and will be two stories in height. In the general ground plan there will be two main divisions; the front of the building will be divided into exhibition and other rooms, and in the rear will be a large semicircular lecture hall. The entrances to this will be on both sides of the building. These entrances will also be the ones ordinarily used for the whole museum, for from the lobbies in front of them, doors will open into a large room, 64 by 28 feet...