Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said General Pershing: "I don't think we ought to delay," and got on with the preliminary speeches. Leaving Cherbourg through a driving rain for their Paris Decennial, the legionaries were saluted by poilus stationed every ten feet for nearly two miles along the railway tracks...
...small rotundity under his natty waistcoat. He admitted his receptions had been bounteous. "If this keeps up much longer," he said, "I shall have to finish my vacation in a hospital. ... I will soon be developed enough around the middle to qualify for an alderman. . . . When I get my feet under my desk at the City Hall, I will give the New Yorkers more service than they ever had before...
...worms with a shovel, cutting him in two. Then, about to slaughter another, he scanned the walls of the house he was building. The walls were alive with tiny reptiles. Sliding out of their tunnels, they came writhing into the grave and slithered about his feet. Ten, 20, 30, he counted, standing in amaze. It was as if the whole world's tiny agents of decay had suddenly centred on the dusty pit he was making for a dead man. As big as chisels, as little as rusty pins, the hungry red worms swarmed into the grave. At last...
...squad, played in most of the season's minor games, and showed marked improvement over the Freshman playing. This year he has risen to first string ranking, and according to reports which emanate from the secret Soldiers Field practice sessions gives promise of great further improvement. Clark is six feet, five inches tall, weighs 210 pounds this year, and has the power to place him among the gridiron's leading giants. On the effectiveness with which he can use this power depends to a certain extent the strength of Harvard's tackles in this fall's encounters...
Another boy constructed a glider and flew 1,000 feet off a California cliff. He was Lloyd W. Bertaud, aged 12. Grown-up he became an Army instructor in the War; an airmail pilot, a stunt flyer. Five years ago he went into the air with Miss Helen Lent of New York, and Belvin W. Maynard, "the flying-parson." The Reverend Maynard shouted a service into their ears; they came down to earth as Mr. & Mrs. Bertaud. Last week Lloyd Bertaud came down again, but not to earth. He splashed into the ocean, disappeared...