Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip from the Canyon to Cody, on the return to Black Hills, the President made in an automobile, proceeding along the famed Cody road. The picayune limousine in which he sat crawled up edges of huge and jagged mountains, reached finally the height of 9,000 feet above sea level. Never before, President Coolidge stated, had he climbed so high...
Nevada, having a very small frontage on the river, agreed to be content with 300,000 acre-feet or 2% of the Colorado's water per annum. But for five years Arizona and California have been deadlocked over how they shall share the remaining...
Vexed, Governor Young and his fellow Californians then proposed that Arizona keep her present vested water rights (233,800 acre-feet) and tributaries (some 2,159,000 acre-feet); that the remainder of the water be equally divided after deducting Nevada's 2%; but that either state be free to use any water not used by the other within 20 years. Asked if he liked this proposition, Governor Hunt of Arizona exploded: "Hell, no! What we want is a square deal...
Near Jerusalem, Professor William F. Bade of an expedition sent by the Pacific School of Religion to unearth Biblical Mizpah, pressed his work and returned home last fortnight. Mizpah was used by the Israelites as a fortress and capital during the Babylonian invasion. Its walls were 16 feet to 25 feet thick. Stratified ruins revealed civilizations stretching back from 500 to 3000 B. C. In a 7th Century B. C. cellar were found wine jars and a statue of the Egyptian...
Umbrella. In Dayton, "home of flying," the eyes of children looked intently upward. Thirty-five feet above them they saw Arthur Kraft with his mother's silk umbrella. He jumped; the umbrella turned inside out. The doctor examined; reported him unbroken but suffering from shock. Smoke Cloud. Observers saw the black bulk of the lie de France, French liner, approaching New York Harbor. They saw an airplane approach the lie de France, circle it, spouting white smoke. No longer did they see the liner. The smoke test, an Army experiment, had completely swathed the steamship in a shroud...