Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diego in the Pacific last week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam...
...paper that is against Prohibition. That makes it better." No debutante to the headlines is Newsman Upshaw. Seven years ago, just before Christmas, when President Harding called a meeting of Governors, Congressman Upshaw stood up on the House floor and shouted: "If these Governors who put their feet under the President...
First violence of the conflict occurred when three Equity sympathizers hissed 150 War-veteran studio workers. The veterans dragged the two younger hissers from their automobile together with hundreds of feet of film, maltreated both film and hissers. Equity denied official connection...
...long ago [1912], there were about 25 automobiles in Tokyo and one poor airplane that managed to hop about three feet off the ground. Today there are more than 500.000 automobiles in Tokyo, and more than 10,000 airplanes will come to greet me, not to mention one thousand motorboats, all decorated...
...accepted for one of three vacancies at the Berlin Royal Academy of Music. When War came he sailed for Boston, where the late Conductor Karl Muck hired him for the Boston Symphony. When the U. S. went to war, he went to camp, was discharged for flat feet. He has since taught, played in concerts, organized the first U. S. sinfonietta (little symphony...