Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distance of ten or twelve miles. How greatly the River has swollen may be judged from the fact that whereas ordinarily the shore of the River is about four and a half miles from the Levee, the water had risen to such an extent that it was within four feet of the top of the Levee. This means that all over this wide space of ground the water was from ten to twenty feet deep over around which is ordinarily used for grazing purposes. North and South this situation exists for several hundred miles...
...Club may be reached by taking a Chestnut Hill car from Park Street and transferring at Hammond Street, Brookline, to a bus. Busses run every 20 minutes between 7 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock at night, to the head of South Street, about 1,000 feet from the Club...
...newspaper photographers. At the conclusion of this process, the stars of the picture world, to be, were given three minutes each in front of a First National field camera, during which these they were to depict, for the photographer and acting director, all of their facial eccentricities. Three hundred feet of moving picture film was used on each...
...scourge, first of the law, then of the Lord; Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over...
...years, burying his instruments at sea, flying them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...