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Word: feet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly it was announced that the young woman had "flat feet." So.had the Grand Duchess Anastasia. Gradually a number of miscellaneous retainers of the Tsaral family visited the young woman, some affirming and others denying that she is Anastasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Anastasia | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...hammered the hard little man dancing a short arm's length away. Twice he struck below the belt and was harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted on his feet. Judges and referee returned a sharply disputed verdict. Benny Bass, coldly courageous, no quitter, vanished wearily to his dressing-room, loser of the world's featherweight championship.* Tapped and fondled by the official doctor, he was declared to be suffering from a probable fracture of the collarbone. Bass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Feathers Fly | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...much boosting from behind we were able to drive our pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...

Author: By R. T. S. and G. K. W., S | Title: THE CRIME | 2/18/1928 | See Source »

...pound shotput Won by David Guarnaccia '29; second, F. C. Fitts '31; third, G. S. Robinson '31. Distance, 42 feet, 4 1-2 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL SHOTPUT EVENT CAPTURED BY GUARNACCIA | 2/17/1928 | See Source »

Pole vault Won by B. G. Burbank '28; second, F. B. Clark '28; third, R. R. Impink '28. Height, 12 feet, 6 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL SHOTPUT EVENT CAPTURED BY GUARNACCIA | 2/17/1928 | See Source »

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