Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grillos are banned by Venezuelan law, but their use has been revived in recent years. Frequently gangrene with automatic amputation of feet or death from gangrene result from ulcers produced by the shackles...
...Manhattan, Joie McCarthy, 5, fell 50 feet, lost two teeth, laughed...
...Evanston, Ill., one Robert Kenny was arrested while motoring alone. Reason: He was playing a ukelele, driving the car with his feet and knees. Said he: "I was imitating a Hawaiian...
...which inspired George Ehret to keep his brewery open nearly Ten Years After. The same hope inspired his sons after his death in 1927. Near-beer, as such, would not have interested old George Ehret. From 1866 to 1920 he made real beer-drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock to get pure water for his product-sold more than 1,200,000 barrels per annum-employed 800 men-refused 40 million dollars for his business in 1912. Shocked, astounded at the advent of Prohibition, he turned to near-beer as a makeshift, continued to hope...
...Wright Jr. of Canada, son of the University of Pennsylvania's oldtime rowing coach (who was there to watch him row), lost by three feet the Diamond Sculls, which he won last year, to Holland's L. H. F. Gunther...