Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another and chatted over tea or whiskey & soda. In munitions factories and arsenals, men in dirty shirts lifted heavy kegs and barrels, piled them together in hundreds, in thousands. And in little towns, in big cities the brass bands played marching songs while the people cheered and stamped their feet. At last, on April 25, 1898, war was declared on Spain...
Though he shuffles off with a chorine of the Manhattan Follies, she cannot bring herself to marry a princely cattle rancher of the prairies, whose great heart and expansive properties are spread at her feet. She finds herself completely subject to her first, trashy love; follows him through his glimmer of success and his nights of degeneracy, hopelessly, happily enslaved by a pair of stuffed, checked pants...
Alfredo Calles, 13, six feet tall, son of President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, visited his sister, Mrs. Thomas Arnold (Ernestina) Robinson, in Manhattan, on his way to New York Military School. When newsgatherers called to see him, he locked himself in the bathroom. Mrs. Robinson sighed: "He is such a rebel!" Mrs. Robinson told how Alfredo disliked automobiles, wanted to see a snowstorm, was fascinated by the subway...
...Britons. Males five feet nine inches (four inches taller than now), females five feet six or seven inches (two inches taller), skulls proportionally higher and shorter than before-these, said Professor F. G. Parsons of the anthropology division, are characteristics of the typical Britons now evolving in harmony with the conditions of modern life...
...last week on Salisbury Plain, England. Any member of a tank crew could operate it. Fine tuning had been eliminated by employing low frequency waves and a powerful, seven-tube superheterodyne receiver. Padded headphones protected the listener from internal and external din. The aerial, a hollow aluminum rod ten feet high, was equipped with a spring hinge to let it fold on the tank roof going under trees or bridges, rise erect again when they were passed...