Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belonging to the experimental group, had been lost in the Mississippi flood, which was at that time raising such havoc, and that it would be necessary for these students to leave college unless, among their fellow classmates, sufficient funds could be raised to put them on their feet again. In the third place, we sent forth notice that an appeal had been received from Russia for contributions for food for starving students in their universities...
...motive force gliders use air currents which swell over hilly terrain. Dune country, such as that near Chicago and off the Carolinas, is best for gliding. Knolls, ranges or terraces should slope toward the prevailing wind. One knoll should be 50 to 200 feet above all. And all should be bare of poles, trees, shrubs or other obstructions...
...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
...roar a small meteorite recently rushed from the skies and smashed into southwest Africa. Last week Harvard's Dutch-born Astronomer Willem Jacob Luyten examined the sky-piece and found it the biggest thing of its kind yet observed by Science. It measures 10 by 10 by 14 feet and weighs between 50 and 75 tons. Hence it is bigger than the record 36½ ton meteorite found on the edge of Greenland by the late Polar Explorer Robert Peary and given to the American Museum of Natural History...
...biological station," continued Professor Ames in explanation, "is situated on a large plantation comparatively close to sea level. Within an hour's reach, however, is the range of Trinidad Mountains which rise about 3,000 feet and thus furnish us with the high, cool, and dry habitat where our experimenters can grow plants not common to tropical regions...