Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday, and the day before, the two crews pulled up-stream. On Thursday, there were a series of short sprints, all of which the first crew won by a few feet. Yesterday, the two eights took the water at different times and, because of the race scheduled this afternoon, the workout was light...
According to Sarnoff it was the War that put radio on its feet, because influential men began to invest huge sums in the Marconi Radio Company. This was made necessary because the German submarines cut all the transatlantic cables. From 1920 on, the radio has advanced by leaps and bounds. From a business point of view, this new invention was sure to be a success because it accomplished the apparently impossible. The radio has saved approximately $30,000,000 for America, said Sarnoff, for it has greatly cut down the expense of transcontinental communication...
...smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into a ravine close by. There seemed a fell malison on this spot which the Mason-Blodgett...
...Eyre reached for his map, missed it; it slipped into a corner of his cockpit. Two thousand feet over Essex, England, he undid his safety straps and reached again. Unintentionally he pressed the control stick forward. The plane stalled with a start and an astonished flier found himself catapulted into midair. With presence of mind he pulled his parachute cord, landed unhurt, lighted a cigaret, and addressed a gaping rustic: "I wonder where my kite's gone...
...race of the first eights resulted in a dead heat but the second schoolboys combination edged out a close victory by four feet in fast time. The conditions for the races were fairly fast, with a slight wind behind the crews...