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Word: feet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient fortifications are 25 feet thick and 40 feet high at some places, and they completely surround the city. Posibly this is the place referred to as Mizpah in the Bible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARSTANG STATES THAT SIX AMERICAN PARTIES ARE ASIAN EXCAVATORS | 1/19/1928 | See Source »

...rare to give it a common name, but it can be described as a large grey-black fish that resembles the common sunfish, and it has large eyes, large fins, is two and a half feet long, and weighs 20 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Fish Puzzles Experts at Museum of Comparative Zoology--Is Like Sunfish but Probably One of Bramidae | 1/19/1928 | See Source »

...Saddle-bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Cuba | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...designed, although he had not yet built, a machine for humans to fly albatross-wise. His machine was to have a wingspan of 25 ft., a tail of 12 ft., and a weight of 150 Ib. The man who would operate it, would lie prone. His feet would flap the contrivance's wings; his hands would steer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Albatross-wise | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...speed is 70 m. p. h. She has visited Bermuda, Porto Rico, flown many training flights at sea; voyaged 50,370 nautical miles since her arrival in 1924. Her usual cruising crew is about 45. She will carry 100 passengers who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patrol | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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