Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cowboys posted to round them up. Toward the packed crowd surrounding the field galloped the horses. Mrs. Coolidge covered her face with her hands. But no one was trampled. The horses found an opening in the crowd, made for it, disappeared with cowboys in pursuit. They passed some 20 feet from the presidential party...
...monotonous a ritual with such constant enthusiasm and éclat. When the Duke of York recently returned from Australia, for example, his bachelor brothers, Edward of Wales, Prince Henry and Prince George were not only on the dock to meet him (see cover), but they carried swords three feet long and wore uniforms in shrewdly calculated contrast...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
Colonel Green plans to build a $1,500,000 airport on his estate, Round Hills, at South Dartmouth, Mass, (near New Bedford). He will have two magnificent runways, 3,800 and 2,700 feet long; a bay protected by a breakwater for the use of seaplanes; some of the finest radio equipment in the U. S.; spacious hangars, experimental buildings...
...time and part of his fortune to a powerful radio station and experimental laboratory on his estate at South Dartmouth. He is glad to have scientists come there to work. As early as 1924, he succeeded in transmitting motion pictures by radio for a distance of 60 feet...