Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them two bombs full of blindex, gas invented by Dr. Byron Cassius Goss, onetime lieutenant colonel with the Chemical War Service, now president of the Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland. Said Dr. Jones to the Chicagoans: "I can take this fountain pen gun, discharge it at a man 20 feet away and in the twinkling of an eye he will be blinded for half an hour. I could discharge this large gun and blind everybody in this large ballroom in the fraction of a second...
...grey-haired man in a sack suit, the delegates rose and applauded. He smiled, said nothing, took a seat near Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Later in the sessions, when Col. Lindbergh was summoned to accept the bronze Clifford Harmon trophy, he was obliged to step over Mr. Wright's feet. Nothing was said. A moment later, Assistant Secretary of Commerce MacCracken called Mr. Wright to join Col. Lindbergh in the presentation. The young man, 26, who flew to world admiration, waited for the elderly one, 56, who flew to the world's skepticism. Arm in arm they walked...
Wave-Riding Romar. Waves, 12 to 16 feet high, curvetted over each other as the huge German Rohrbach seaplane Romar roared over them in fractious test flight last week. The Rotnar alighted, ploughed through the flapping crests, took to the sprayed air again. The test of her seaworthiness was satisfactory, pleasing...
...Japanese are not very good baseball players. However hard they try, there is some gymnastic constraint in little yellow Japanese frames which makes it impossible for them to throw and catch without an awkwardness. They are at their best in running and sliding between bases; their feet are quick and they give little birdlike cries on arriving safely, or shrill furious ones when they are tagged. The terminology of baseball in Japan is identical with that in the U. S.; it is strange to hear the hordes of rooters, their eyes swimming with suspense, abusing pitchers in their own tongue...
...Fomona, Calif., 75 dwarfs met together to form the Small Men's Association of America, comprising only human beings less than four feet high, of which they became charter members. Midgets, little men who are not, like dwarfs, in some way stunted or deformed, could become associate members. There was no reason for forming the association except that the dwarfs wished to band themselves together...