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Word: feet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average height of the 1931 crew is six feet, one inch and the average weight, 176 pounds. S. W. Swaim '31, the stroke, will serve as acting captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1931 EIGHT OPENS SEASON TODAY | 5/5/1928 | See Source »

...race. After him tottered Henigan, up among the winners at last. And after Henigan came Joie Ray, running on his toes. He didn't recognize his own coach, Johnny Behr, who caught him in a blanket. When his shoes were cut away from his swollen and blistered feet it was found that the nails of his big toes had been torn loose from the cuticle. The soles of his feet were bleeding horribly. On the rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension and suddenly cut. It seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marathon | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Natural Gas. Of 15 natural gas companies furnishing 16 billion cubic feet of gas each year to 32 communities in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana-Southwest Gas Utilities Corp. was formed. President is Charles G. Laskey, bland, onetime prospector of the district served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Mergers: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Fisher Brothers, Louis P. and William A., executives of General Motors Corp., brought 100 guests from Detroit to City Island, N. Y., to watch twin yachts take the water. Each yacht is 106 feet long, finished in mahogany, capable of doing 22 miles per hour; was built for each Fisher brother at a cost of $250,000. Each Fisher brother plans to spend another $100,000 furnishing and decorating each yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Alcock hurled the hammer 138 feet, 8 3-4 inches to take fourth in the hammer throw. First and third places in this event went to Cornell, and second to the University of Pittsburgh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RELAY MEN TAKE SECOND PLACE | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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