Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David White '29 tied at 20 feet 6 1-3 inches for third place in the broad jump; while in the shotput second and third places were captured by David Guarnaccia '29 and Pratt. The latter, placing in his third event, threw the hammer 114 feet 10 1-2 inches to take second...
...discus Guarnaccia took third to Pratt and Tony Plansky of the St. Alphonsus Association, the individual star of the meet, with a heave of 126 feet 8 inches...
...Moore '29, the University's javelin-throwing ace of this spring's track-team, made a toss of 186 feet to take second in this event...
...Colchester, Conn., one Edward West, 69, six feet tall, fell down a well. The well was 20 feet deep; in its bottom were five feet of water. Standing in this, Edward West yelled for help. As he did so, his feet sank slowly into the mud and the water rose slowly along his neck, up his chin. At the end of an hour, the water reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face...
...calibre has been devised to supplement the nervous and mental strain of the present system, namely, the requirement that student work under fire--or more literally, in the immediate presence of a roaring steamshovel. Uninterruptedly, save for one-half hour at noon, it puffs and snorts and hisses forty feet from the open windows. No longer, aparently, can one get through the Law School by merely answering satisfactorily ten questions in four hours; he must show that he can one get through the Law School by merely answering satisfactorily ten questions in four hours; he must show that...