Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laying of the corner-root. "This ceremony will be the most impressive that has ever been conducted since John Harvard staked out his claim by the banks of the Charles," admitted the Lampoon wit who is in complete charge of the dedication. "The elm is some ten feet high and flourishes, I am told, somewhere in the wilds of South Boston. I have not seen it yet, but is is said to be a paragon among trees...
...rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons of ice above the water, and since the bergs ride about seven-eights under water, the total weight of each is about 800,000 tons. Icebergs have a most mystifying habit of seeking cold pockets in the ocean. When...
...game with Purdue I sat near a group of Harvard undergraduates accompanied by young women. One of the men carried a large square bottle which he planted ostentatiously between his feet. It was filled with courage and nepenthe and its owner was hospitable to a fault...
...making bricks is to press a mixture of clay, sand and water into forms. Usual size is close to 21¼ x 4 x 8¼ in. Such blocks are dried in the air or in a warm draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they are burned hard...
...putting over the gags pretty well, and this woman was roaring and screaming up there, I said to Marilyn. By goash! I'll kill off that old fatty" So I kept it an and fussed around with my hands and feet, and she'd split for sure. Then after the show when the spot man was down backstage, he came around and said. Hey Jack did you hear that woman upstairs? 'Oh yes' I said, kinds modest, you know, because I didn't want to seem stuck-up over my line. "Well you know what it was about...