Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Breathless, he explained, as with trembling hands he unwrapped, that at last, at long last-crash! At his feet lay the arduously wrought statuette of Sculptor Taylor's old age, in fragments...
Last week, in an oaken crib 52 feet long and weighing ten tons, it arrived in Manhattan on the French liner Paris. It is to be exhibited by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Madison Square Garden, scene of many a prize fight, hockey game, circus, but never before an art-lovers' nook. Later the epic in paint will go on a trip around the world and back to Paris...
...four and one third miles the Rove Tunnel, a canal 72 feet wide, 50 feet high, Cuts under the mountains of Nerthe from the port of Marseilles to the lake of Berre. Out of the mountains were hewn 2,500,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock to make a tube nearly three times as large as a two-track railway tunnel. It forms the most important link in a series of canals and dikes that will unite the Rhone River and Central France with Marseilles, buzzing port...
...hopelessly about, followed by an ambulance ready to pick up the bodies. They saw Carisi climb over the edge, struggle vainly, hanging head down, to fix the buckled wheel. Pilot Chamberlin. wrapped the children in blankets to save the shock of a crash. Then he slowly swooped down, ten feet from the ground flattened into a pancake stall, 'tail downwards. A wing dragged along the ground, slewed the ship around but not over. Incredibly, Pilot Chamberlin, hero with Pilot Bert Acosta of the world-record endurance flight (TIME, April 25) had eluded disaster. Eloysa Levine laughed, "Mr. Chamberlin wrapped...
Since Dec. 21, when these flyers started from San Antonio, Tex., they had visited Mexico and Central America, skirted the long western coast of South America, soared over the towering Andes at a height of 12,000 feet, followed South America's east coast to the West Indies. They had covered some 17,000 miles, personally carried the "good will" of the U. S. to every Central and South American nation, arrived at the end of their long trip on scheduled time. Through tropic storms, landing in places where no plane had been before, four of these amphibian planes...