Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spare the more gruesome details, the morning's jaunt on snowshoes managed to give him a very intimate acquaintance with the snow by tripping him up every time one of the attractions of nature he had come to see drew his attention away from a fixed spot about two feet in front of him. Skating was out of the question because the pond was buried so deep in snow his hosts did not even know where to start looking for it, and the afternoon spent on skis made the Vagabond wish he had included a few lectures on his list...
...former college stars went into the lead in the first period when Clark Hodder '25, former University captain, intercepted a Harvard pass a few feet from the mouth of the Crimson cage and drove the puck past O. P. Jackson '29. The University skaters outplayed their opponents throughout this frame, but were unable to capitalize any of their scoring opportunities. F. R. G. Giddens '30 swooped down the ice time and again but was unable to fool Learnard, the University Club goalie...
...broad jump and shot put to carry it through to victory, but its chances are slim at the best. French should take second place, but here again he may be handicapped by his late start in training. Last year he won the event with a leap of 22 feet 1 1-4 inches, but this year Dartmouth has Canby, the favorite, who is capable of a 23-foot jump. Donner of the Green has also leapt well over 22 feet. Becker of Cornell must also be considered. French will have to be up to form in order to capture...
...small that he had to have some one carry his gear to the top of the slide for him, Stanley Zarborski, 9, of Ironwood, Mich., jumped and floated through the air 72 feet, and later 62 feet, to win a free-for-all ski tournament at Racine, Wis., last week...
Fortunately there are other staircases in the Latjeran. Cardinal Gasparri, Signor Mussolini and their suites entered not all kneeling, but militantly erect. They met and faced each other across a massive table, 16 feet long and 4 feet wide, the top hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which...