Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet in diameter and the equivalent of five stories high. Inside will be airtight chambers to contain compressed air, like the treatment tank that Dr. Cunningham has had operating in Kansas City for eight years...
...tried to obey, put on the emergency brakes, also blew the locomotive's whistle. Prudent Mr. Pruden, noticing that the train had only been able to slow down to 40 miles per hour as it approached him, jumped. The locomotive's cowcatcher nipped him, knocked him 50 feet...
...Paris, one Renée Valette, 18, leaped from the Eiffel Tower to die, as many another had done successfully. After twirling down 35 feet, her skirt caught on a projection, where she dangled until workmen, scolding, hauled her to security...
...last (457-yard) hole to find that he needed a birdie 3 to tie Cooper. Wood smote rubber-and Armour's ball traveled 275 yards down the middle of the fairway. Iron smote rubber-and Armour's ball made a 180-yard parabola to the green, 15 feet from the cup. For four minutes Armour studied his putt. Then, there was a tap, a roll and a clink. Armour had made 301. Next day, in the play-off of the tie, Armour again came from behind to complete the round in 76, while Cooper slashed...
Such were words spoken at Rome last week by Gino Lucetti, a youth whose bomb glanced harmlessly off the limousine of Signor Benito Mussolini (TIME, Sept. 20), as the Premier was motoring slowly toward his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome. Signer Lucetti, some six feet tall, but with refined, sensitive features, confessed last week in a detached monotone. Spectators noted that he had thrust sockless feet into a pair of battered shoes, wore unpressed duck trousers, a collarless shirt, a saggy coat...