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Word: feet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Harvard" and "Veritas" are sister ships, 20 feet long, with a five foot beam, and costing $3600 each. They will be used for coaching on week days, the larger boats being reserved for following races in the Basin. The addition of these two Greenport boats brings the Harvard coaching feet to a total of eight launches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN HARVARD AND VERITAS ADDED TO CRIMSON FLEET | 4/27/1929 | See Source »

...only three small spots on the elephant head where a bullet proves fatal. The guns we use make a 45 look like a toy, and yet an elephant can digest a good four shots from them. This time luck was with me; the animal crumpled and fell 15 feet in front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin Johnsons Describe Perils of Filming Elephants in African Jungles--"But Lions are Easy," is Their Verdict | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

...needed organized exercise. And Dr. Eugene Lyman Fiske, medical director of Manhattan's Life Extension Institute, who scoffed: "Walking in the city is the greatest camouflage I know of. All you will get from it, with the possible benefits for the lower limbs in some cases, is flat feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Getting Up Exercises | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...fiery mess is continually boiling over from the kettle's snouty spout. First, a trickle of fat sparks. Then the trickle turns to a stream, the stream reaches the circumference of a man's body -a stream of molten steel with a long, sheer drop of 30 feet. The stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become one more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Furnaces & Gold | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Newark, N. J., a Mrs. Mary Galabrese went into the mixing room of her husband's bakery, saw feet sticking from a stalled doughmixer, called police and firemen. The dead man was Gianto Darn, a worker in the bakery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rabbits | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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