Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands full six feet tall. No brittle yellowman he, but broad and bronzed and bland. Bible in hand or coat pocket. Pistol within arms reach. Devout Christian. Dead shot. Master of the world's largest private army-195,000 men. Such today is China's Strongest Man: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, pronounced "Fung U-sheeang...
...moved from Krums Elbow toward the bridge that rose, a web of iron, in the mist. At the mile and a half, Cornell had more than a length on the others. At two and a half miles, Cornell was rowed out and Columbia was leading California by a few feet. In the last third of a mile, crew races are decided and in that stretch California and Columbia fenced with each other. They went under the bridge and out of sight. When they came out, California was leading by a quarter of a length. Slowly the space became almost...
...office in the Old Arcade Bldg., Cleveland, reporters listened to the low, kindly voice of a long-beloved citizen-Charles Francis Brush, 79, six feet tall, big of frame, bushy of eyebrows, world-famed physicist, inventor of the arc light. He answered questions concerning the $500,000 foundation he had just endowed...
...macaroni and noodle manufacturers, also at Chicago. Olive-skinned, dark-eyed, they shouted Vivas when they heard Chief Noodle-maker Henry Mueller of New York announce that the average Italian eats four miles of macaroni a year. But they shook their heads dolefully at the pitiful 211 feet which is the per capita ration...
After less than five minutes the demonstration was weakening when, to the rescue, in struggled tall young William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island with a thin, rectangular object some eight feet long and five feet wide...