Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Levine is carrying on, a pioneer like the others but not a publicity hunter. Without financial backing you can get nowhere with a commercial business. He knows it and will help put commercial aviation on its feet in spite of everything...
...have turned to stone, excite the lay imagination more quickly than anything else the diggers find. Students of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) saw a bony protuberance exposed by a landslide on the shale cliffs of Los Angeles Harbor last spring. They picked and pried it loose, a bone five feet long, weighing 55 pounds, encrusted with marine fossils. What was it? wondered gaping natives. The femur (thigh bone), said Pomona professors, of a giant elephant that roamed California 20,000 years ago when the rim of the Pacific lay much higher inland...
...Hava Supai Canyon, Arizona, Archaeologist Samuel Hubbard, of the Oakland (Calif.) Museum, financed by Edward L. Doheny, oilman, picked and shoveled the banks of the Colorado River seeking traces of an "apeman" with nine feet of vertebrae, including tail; twelve-legged dragons; animals answering Biblical descriptions. Digger Hubbard is unique in his profession. He hopes to prove Evolution wrong, the Bible right, about man's origin...
Planned for seven years, built in three, the blimp, 94 feet long with a fancied resemblance to the Los Angeles, had been intended to stay up indefinitely. Those who watched it careen over Times Square, veering in the wind, agreed that indefiniteness had characterized the flight...
...building of skyscrapers there are a few details in which science has not supplanted skill. Workmen still play catch with incandescent rivets, which, when heated, are tossed through the air 30, 40, 50 feet to where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...