Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Picture a gorge some 3000 feet deep with a trail blown out of its perpendicular cliffs and right through 25 spurs which were too difficult to circumvent, where a single miss-step means death. That is the sort of approach to the silver mine which I visited during the past summer," said Professor D. H. McLaughlin in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday morning...
...bricks. That trail is no little promenade even in the daytime; but we found ourselves on it one evening in the pitch dark and rain with five miles of the hardest stretch before us. It is no fund picking your way along with a roaring torrent about 1000 feet directly below...
...York City, was chosen to lead this year's Freshman football eleven by a vote of his teammates yesterday afternoon. Ticknor, who plays fullback, has been one of the chief elements in the first year Crimson attack so far this fall. His 195 pounds of weight distributed over 6 feet 3 inches of height give him a powerful line-bucking drive which has been a valuable asset to the Freshmen in tearing open opposing lines this season. Against Andover two weeks ago he showed up particularly well, scoring one of his team touchdowns and proving a great source of defensive...
...feet of Mercedes Gleitz touched chalk rocks on the South shore of England. Exclamatory, she thanked God she was conscious and then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
Holy Cross, though outnumbered, possessed an individual star whose equal has perhaps never been seen on the historic Soldiers Field turf. Harvard had its pistol, but the Crusader leader had the Harvard stands on its feet yelling for more of his gravitational magic. The fight might well have been declared a draw by music critics, Harvard's volume equalling the single-handed figuratively, of course--performance of the Crusader's drum major...