Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under a permit dated March 3, 1925, Illinois and its Chicago sanitary district have been drawing some 8,500 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Michigan, to flush away Chicago's sewage through a drainage canal emptying into the Des Plaines River which enters the Illinois River, which enters the Mississippi. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, complaining that Great Lakes levels were injuriously lowered by this leak at Chicago, sued to restrain Illinois in the U. S. Supreme Court. To Illinois' aid came Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. These co-defendants...
...pallid inmates of one of the cell houses were assembled for a Thanksgiving Day cinema. The silence was broken by a shuffling of feet and hoarse muttering. Seven or eight convicts had slipped from their places and surrounded Assistant Turnkey Ray Singleton. They were dragging him towards a door from the cellhouse into the adjacent hospital. They were telling him to get the master key. Turnkey Singleton was answering that the master key, which would open the main door of the cellhouse, had been taken away from its usual place at the telephone switchboard...
...went back afterwards looking for the prima donna, found her in her stocking feet, just not able to get back into her tight new shoes. Thus Mrs. Long found a new pupil; and the career was launched...
Jacob Epstein lounged about the gallery with an aggressive nervousness while such people peered at his bronze sculpture. His face, abnormal, fierce, flatulent, was twisted into expressions of politeness when people were introduced to him. His oversized hands and heavy feet, his awkward body bulging in its loose shrouds, made him look very much out of place among all those lovers of art. But Sculptor Epstein did not appear disconcerted. Had the history of his career flashed through his mind, he would have recalled how he had left America in 1902, how for three years he had studied in Paris...
...passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor. Finally, at a gesture from the starter, the operator touched a lever within the car, causing the outside doors to shut. Without delay, the car drifted upward at the rate of 800 feet per minute. At each floor for which a button had been pressed, the car automatically stopped, the doors automatically opened. At a touch of the lever the doors closed themselves, the elevator continued its flight. At the 16th floor, dizzy with surprise & pleasure, the old gentleman got out. . . . When...