Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week, a festive party was held in an art gallery. An aged gentleman, hero of the occasion, was placed on a throne and at his feet a "magic carpet" was unrolled, upon which his friends came and laid presents. The old gentleman's name was then inscribed "leading all the rest" in a book of gold and he was saluted as the Abou Ben Adhem of New York City. The old gentleman was Robert Weeks de Forest, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of the Russell Sage Foundation, of the Welfare Council of New York City...
...Lisbon, Portugal, one Captain Franz Romer got into a rubber-covered canvas boat, 20 feet long. In it were 55 gallons of water, 590 pounds of food, and some oars. Captain Romer sat down, sniffed the air and started to row across the Atlantic Ocean, to Manhattan...
...stay in, a tall man had come quietly to his side and watched him at his work. The Negro asked his name but the man, as mysterious as a spirit, said merely "I was his friend." The stranger borrowed the Negro's spade and stood with his feet planted in the hole, lifting out the earth. For a moment he leaned back on his shovel; "So this is the end. . . ." he said. Then he stepped out of the grave and went away. In the silence, under a grey sky, the Negro went on digging...
...days of Roman occupancy of Great Britain; in it, it seemed probable, St. Augustine had initiated bearded and barbarous tribesmen into fellowship with a kind, mysterious and splendid God. During the lapse of savage centuries, the little church had become overlaid with dust; when found, it was covered 14 feet deep with the refuse of many dreary years...
...veil of optimism that has hung over the camp of the CRIMSON baseball team was rudely rent yesterday by loud reports of internal trouble in the battery. The pitcher and catcher, known to teammates and fans as Frankie and Johnnie, have always been as close as the 60 feet between the plate and the box permitted, but a disagreement over a disputed passage in the poems of T. S. Eliot '10 has led, it is reported to a serious personal breach...