Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly got a laugh when you called the new German Ambassador to Washington a "fair" tennis player (TIME, Nov. 14). If you mean a fellow who does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this...
...first of the 30 hitherto unclimed peaks which were scaled during the summer by the expedition. One of the most spectacular feats was the climbing of four peaks in the Columbia ice-field in 36 hours without rest. One of the highest peaks encountered was "Mount Lowell", 10,800 feet high, named by the party in honor of President Lowell...
...demand bread for our people, justice for the miners." All were stoutly shod and all carried an extra pair of "boots." A rolling kitchen and a motor truck filled with supplies followed them, and there was an ambulance with well-trained male nurses to look after sore and swollen feet...
...into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts in the tunnel ceiling. Thus they change the tunnel air completely 42 times an hour and but 56 of the fans are needed to do so. Fire hazard is prevented by watchmen stationed every few score feet; and there are tunnel fire engines at each entrance...
...been cast unprepos-sessingly as a frothy ne'er-do-well. Herein he plays a rough villager with whom the fickle lady of the play falls surpassingly in love. Her southern family storm; and her father shoots the villager. For the gay, lying lady, suddenly swept off her feet by the truth of passion, there is no resource but death...