Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound weight event. Coach Bingham's relay team lead Cornell and Dartmouth throughout the races, winning in three minutes and 12 seconds. The establishing of a new world's indoor high jump mark went to Dartmouth. Captain L. T. Brown of the Green squad cleared the bar at six feet four and three fourths inches...
...than one that might have to be patched together by scraps of old notes and elusive recollections. And Dean Hawkes says out his faith in such glimpsing of Parnassus in his phrase "A student can learn a great deal by sitting two or three times a week at the feet of a master of literature and science, without doing outside reading or other work...
...obscene in Boston, the Watch and Ward Society. Since time immemorial the Boston Common has been the high domain and secure retreat of the prolific pigeon. For years these delightful little feathered friends of men have lived and died, loved, wooed and wed, eaten our peanuts, gotten under our feet, and played the "scenic" role, protected not persecuted. Now it seems they are grown too numerous for their visible means of support and are doomed to death by starvation or a worse-than-death existence with enforced birth control. The method is simple. Once lured within specially constructed shelters wherein...
Last week it became known that Harvard anthropologists were cooperating with the Pathe Exchange, Inc., in making educational movies of the monkeys. From Havana came Anthropologist Frederick Hulse, with Pathe Cameraman Miller, bringing 3,000 feet of film, picturing fiery orangutans who showed fight when the camera clicked, other monkeys that showed fear, others that were friendly...
...flap its wings. Alan Cobham, British aviator in the plane, looked down and started with amazement, for scowling up at him from beneath their heavy orbital ridges were the very dragons of his nursery books. And they were alive-huge, dark monsters nine feet long, who raised themselves on post-like legs to glare at the strange thing in the air. They showed no fear: during a million years all beasts on Komodo had fled from their voracity...