Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hungry Desert" two mighty rivers will be diverted. One, the Amudaria, is famed as the longest stream in Asiatic Russia (1,500 mi.). Superstitious peasants call it "The Strewer of Life." The other river is the Sirdaria, "The Giver of Gold." Together they will supply 10,000 cubic feet of water per second for one of the vastest irrigation projects of modern times. Once watered, the "Hungry Desert" will present ideal conditions for growing cotton, should double the present output of Turkestan. Last week Mr. Davis told Moscow correspondents that $250,000,000 will be spent on this stupendous irrigation...
...teams wound up the afternoon with a few minutes signal drill in which Putnam. Wetmore and Gleason led the A, B, and C combinations, respectively. Ben Ticknor reported with blistered feet and was excused from the drill, Gildea taking his place on Team A, and Cunningham moving up to Team B. Art Devens then jumped into the gap at center on Team...
Neither Trainer nor Ticknor is a physical giant; they both weigh around 190 and stand approximately six feet tall, but what they lack in bulk they amply make up for in strength and stamina. In all these qualities the one is very nearly the exact counterpart of the other, a fact which makes their play very similar and renders it impossible to rate one above the other on merit...
...dedication a buffet luncheon will be served in the Reading Room, and an inspection of the building will follow. One of the unique features of the new building which the visitors will be shown is the reading room, the largest in any library in the world, a room 480 feet long, extending the length of the building. In the center of this huge room there is located a delivery desk 24 feet square, with a capacity for 1600 books within the desk. A book lift connects this desk with the book stacks in the basements, so that, at a moment...
...Gleason were forced to join the Gilligan brothers, as unable to play. Greeley suffered the worst injury of the year, dislocating his elbow. He will be on the sidelines about five or six weeks. O'Connell and Gleason are out only temporarily, however, suffering from blisters on the feet. They are expected back today...