Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Melville levee along the Atchafalaya gave way. Soon every street in Melville was a roaring torrent. Scrambling from their houses, lacking time even to clothe themselves, men, women and children half-waded, half-swam to unbroken sections of the levee. Five hours later Melville was from 10 to 15 feet under water with most of its houses sweeping in fragments toward the Gulf...
...dumb and stupid world plants its weary feet upon the slippery and blood-soaked sand where men like John Brown died. . . . America ought to be glad to build a monument to John Brown and ashamed to let the Negroes take the lead. He was one of America's great...
...Fairview, Ky., a concrete obelisk mounts 351 feet into the air. Built by Southern hands, it is a memorial to Jefferson Davis, onetime President of the Confederate States of America. Last week workmen were completing an elevator installation; on June 3 the monument, which stands on the estate where Davis was born, will be formally dedicated. With the exception of the Washington Monument, it is the highest memorial shaft in the world...
...anchor, and His Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr and chatter...
...adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy at all. I felt just as if I was driving a motor car over a smooth road, only it was easier. Then it began to get light and the clouds got higher. . . . Sleet...