Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, while the happy bears frolicked among the blossoming foamcups, the Guzzlenots descended upon them. The Guzzlenots were dour fowls with shark teeth and clanked a mean blue beak. Their feet were wide and webbed, their necks rubbery and curving. They could not abide the Staggerbears with their crescent smile and ruddy, joyful blossoming noses, their boozy roars and capers...
Foundations. The site of the cathedral is Washington's highest point, Mount Saint Albans, a thickly wooded hill 400 feet above the Potomac and northwest of the city. Here already functions some appanages of the cathedral Mount Saint Albans National Cathedral School for Boys, National Cathedral School for Girls, a wing of the library, (containing 20,000 books), the college of preachers (for which last week's contributions will build a permanent home). Contemplated are a hall of assembly, a hostel, to accommodate visiting clergymen and scholars, an administration building, a chapter house, and a clergy village for retired rectors...
...foundations of the cathedral, great and thick, have been laid. When the building is completed it will be a large Gothic, cross-walls supported by flying buttresses, a great central tower, two towers at the west entrance, a nave 500 feet long, 95 feet high. Under the apse, which is already finished at the foundation's east end, are three crypt chapels. In one of these, Bethlehem Chapel, Bishops of Washington have conducted cathedral services since 1912. Here are entombed the bodies of Woodrow Wilson, George Dewey, Henry Yates Satterlee (first bishop of Washington) Henry Vaughan (cathedral architect), and others...
...committee for completing the cathedral compared it with Washington Cathedral: "The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be the third largest in the world, being surpassed in size only by St. Peter's in Rome and Seville in Spain.? Its total area is 109,082 square feet as compared with an area of 71,000 square feet of Washington Cathedral, which ranks eighth in size among the cathedrals, of the world. The central tower of St. John the Divine will rise to a height of 400 feet as compared with the height of that of Washington? 262 feet...
...inexhaustible propensity of U. S. people to sit and look on was heavily exploited last Saturday. Millions of football folk sat on narrow benches under the tingling October wind, hardening themselves for the real tests of November. Fur coats were given their earliest workouts, wind-defying cosmetics were tested, feet tapped tentatively on chill concrete against the afternoons when they will be all but frozen. Six hundred thousand by authentic estimate crammed themselves around the 15 leading games ?Notre Dame-Navy, Penn-Penn State, and Stanford-Southern California assembling 60,000 each...