Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raising main-stream levees two feet and widening them from eight feet thick to twelve-$7,700,000 (total authorization...
...Viceregal Staff accompanied Lord Irwin. When the jungle grew too dense for horseback riding, the Viceroy cast dignity to the Himalayan breezes, and began with gusto to scramble and to climb. Leaving the jungle behind, as they ascended, the party made a rocky climb of nearly 5,000 feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where he was met by a motor...
German. For two and a half years the German dug the brisk point of his intelligence into Gobi's secretive sand. Through the desert he trekked southward accompanied by obscure missionaries. When the sands of the desert grew cold in the mountain passes of Thibet, his feet chilled and hardened. Feet still half-frozen when he arrived at Leh, in northern India, he announced happily to the world that the scientific purpose of his wanderings (not stated) had been accomplished. He is Dr. Wilhelm Filchner...
...under 4:20 more than six times. He holds with Paavo Nurmi the world's indoor mile record. Last month when he finished third in the Boston marathon (TIME, April 30) his first long distance race, his shoes had to be cut away from his swollen and bleeding feet. Clarence DeMar won at Boston. Ray finished with glazed eyes, a haggard face. At Long Beach, DeMar finishing seventh, was haggard, Ray happy. He kissed his hand to the Mayor as he crossed the finish line. "See those feet" he said in the locker room, crinkling his toes, "no blisters...
...boat placed behind Yale and Princeton in a very close contest. The Harvard, oarsmen, rowing a lower stroke than their rivals for most of the distance, sprinted too late and, could not overhaul the leaders in the last furlong. The Eli shell nosed out the Princeton entry by ten feet with the Crimson following a length and a quarter behind. The time was seven minutes and six seconds...