Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, blustering, hearty man walked into the Bulletin building and announced that he was the new managing editor. Chewing the end of an unlighted cigar, he called into his filthy, paper-littered office all the staff, invited them to put their feet on his desk, talked over with them the prevailing situation...
...became a raider, bombed Antwerp once, London twice. In his book The Zeppelins, he reports, without boast or apology, that he could have destroyed London were that the German desire. He invented the device of concealing dirigible raiders by lowering a pilot in a steel basket on 1,000 feet or more of cable through a cloud bank, with binoculars and telephone to give bearings, observe bomb damage. He says the Kaiser ordered him to avoid hitting King Albert of Belgium, King George of England, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral or London's residential districts...
...would do instead of being President of the U. S. He is to become president of Empire State Building Corp., a company formed to erect an 80-story office building on the site of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. It is to be nearly 1,000 feet tall (nearly five times its 200 foot frontage on Fifth Avenue), to contain 34.000,000 cubic feet of habitable space, making it not only the tallest but the largest building in the world. As executive in charge of the construction and management of the building Mr. Smith is to receive...
...Culion. To lepers isolated for life or until cured on Culion, sombre Philippine island, were shipped last week from Brooklyn a lot of huge cans containing comedies, tragedies, newsreels, 778.000 feet of the best films made in the U. S. last year. No leper critic records the reactions of Culion citizens, called "world's kindest audience," to the canned cargo. But once a year when the films, paid for by organized charity, arrive, the Culionites sing, set off fireworks...
...microscope to which he usually puts his eye. By adjusting the lens to take one exposure per minute he took a moving picture of the growth, subdivision and death of a living cell and of a cell taken from cancerous tissue. His cell-story, magnified from microns to feet, Dr. Carrel exhibited last week to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...