Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the epitaph awaiting Lee O'Neil Browne when, last week, stooping to avoid a low branch, he made a misstep on the narrow stone path at the edge of his bluff and plunged 50 feet into the Fox River, whose muddy waters whirled along half a mile (to their junction with the Illinois River) before"yielding the body...
When the delegates had assembled for a routine plenary session, Dr. Guerrero suddenly leaped to his feet and moved a resolution as follows: "Resolved: That no state shall intervene in the internal affairs of another...
...work of Davison, Noble and Greenough star, in winning the hurdles and 600-yard run, and in tying for first in the meet. Draper, also of Noble and Greenough, hurled the 12-pound shot 47 feet 3 inches to establish a new schoolboy record...
...Haggerty's double victories in the mile and the 1000-yard run; and third, the record-breaking heave of C. A. Pratt '28 who, urged on by the apparently unsurpassable toss of Anderson of Cornell, rose to the supreme effort of his career and with a put of 42 feet two and three-fourths inches nosed out the Ithacan by one half an inch to establish a new meet record...
...return with the count whose title proved a misnomer at Monte Carlo. She may be hailed as the leading emotionalist of the stage, for all the world loves a lovable Lorelei especially if her diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings have not been shared in the corridors of Sever, if the word has not been whispered across the tables of the Reading Room, if the number two relay...