Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never played golf, but I have often read it is an old man's game. I am 61, but strong and hearty for my time of life. I have seen golf played once or twice and it does not seem a difficult game. I am five feet eight, can go upstairs quite fast without getting out of breath; and walk a good many miles every month looking for jobs. I haven't been able to find a job lately; and Mr. Blake's $10 would mean a lot. I am really very, very active...
...noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...
...manifest itself but everything done at a stated time and for money is likely to be trickery." Thus mollified, the spiritualists beamed kindly up at Mr. Thurston in the pulpit. A collection was about to be taken when a member of the magician's faction jumped to his feet, cried: "You invite us here and then take up a collection!" He was quelled...
...certain that there are more unknown infantrymen with their feet on the laboratory firesteps of medical science than in any other field of endeavor in the world. Not only an outbreak approaches an epidemic does the public wonder how many nascent Black Plagues have been stamped out in a test tube...
...HARVARD, shake off the famous indifference, banish that deadly, dumb apathy that prevailed Saturday, make an effort to drown out your leaders' orders, and learn to take a beating on your feet as your team does instead of quitting and waiting for the timer's whistle to count you out! ALLEN D. BLISS...