Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ames '98, professor of Botany, upon his return recently from the southern voyage on which he has been for the past four weeks. Part of this time he was investigating conditions in the laboratory, and, when not occupied in this way, was supervising the shooting of some 7,000 feet of film which are to be incorporated into several new reels for educational purposes...
...fact that it is to be directed within the club, takes the performance out of the class of an amateur company going through the routine mechanics of the professional stage. Further, the absence of semi-professional support in the cast forces the show to stand on its own feet and to make its appeal on its merits as a purely undergraduate endeavor...
...learned yesterday from the Treasurer's office that the property was left to Harvard by a bequest of B. F. Keith made several years ago, and that the University owns a part of the sidewalk inasmuch as the building line extends five feet beyond the front of the present structure. According to law, a notice of ownership must be posted one week in every 20 years in order that property rights may be retained. No obstruction will be set up around the plot and no prosecutions will be carried out against trespassers...
Denmark's elongated King, Christian X, dislikes hitches. Things can never run too smoothly to suit the precise mind of the six-foot-five-inch ruler, and yet recently a number of annoying little accidents have happened to His Majesty. A fat Frenchman fell over his feet in the theatre at Cannes (TIME, Feb. 25). He paid a State Visit to Madrid, only to have the Queen-Mother of Spain die suddenly (TIME, Feb. 18). So it has gone. Last week King Christian returned to Denmark from the Riviera, determined that if possible, this voyage should be uneventful...
...Mary le Bas, owned by Howard Bruce of Baltimore, will carry many thousands of pounds sterling on his dark brown nose. Last year, as this year's cheering crowds will well remember, Billy Barton all but won. Leading, he reached the last fence. As his feet left the ground Maguelonne, a riderless French mare, barged against him. He cleared the obstacle but the evenness of his jump had been broken and he crashed. Tipperary Tim, 100 to 1, the only other mounted horse to survive, came on to win. Little Tommy Cullinan, Billy's jockey, rose, shook himself...