Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the object to be struck, except on the rare occasion of a straightaway bird, neither rising nor falling. For cross flight at 40 yards distance, it would be necessary to back that goose eight feet...
Your TIME and FORTUNE should prove great levelers in aiding the people to keep their feet on the ground during the readjustment period...
Among the runners winning without handicap were W. C. Rowe '30 who took the 110-yard low hurdles in 13 3-5 seconds and also the 220-yard dash in 24 seconds: N. P. Beveridge '32, who took the high jump, reaching 5 feet, 10 inches: Oscar Sutermeister '32, who pole vaulted 12 feet, 3 inches: F. J. Mardulier '30, who took the 70-yard high hurdles in 9 4-5 seconds: J. S. Marsh '32, who was victor in the javelin throw with a heave of 161 feet, 8 inches; and F. C. Fitts '33, who put the shot...
...keeping with the rest of the new building. When the general sentiment about the new tower is so well defined, it would be a pity to have it built along its present lines without some consideration of a possible change. Certainly with the house hardly more than four feet above the ground there is ample time left for revision...
Quickly to his feet leaped Democratic General Harrison, proposing, as a sort of reprisal, night sessions on the tariff. The Young Turks accepted the challenge, helped to vote three-hour sessions each night, making a ten-and-a-half hour fighting day for the Senate. Never did the tariff war go more briskly. The Young Turks, in the saddle, had a definite program: to keep the Senate in session; to pass the bill by Dec. 1; to keep industrial rates at their present levels. Old Guardsmen fairly panted as farm rates were pegged up so rapidly that even Senate clerks...