Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peculiar is the fact that only one species of high altitude fish can live in Bolivia's famed inland sea Lake Titicaca (see Map) 12,000 feet above Pacific sea level. When low altitude fish are poured into Lake Titicaca they refuse to breed...
...large feet Marshal Feng stands a full,' massive six feet tall. He towered Gargantuanly, last week, during his address to slender, slant-eyed students of both sexes at the New Nationalist University in Nanking. The students barkened breathlessly, not only because Feng is China's heroic Daniel Boone, but because he is also War Minister of the new Chinese Nationalist State and moreover absolute master of a private and pioneering army of 150,000 men (TIME...
...Congai is reputed to contain a tragic significance. A half-French-half-native girl (Helen Menken) would rather be alone in the jungle with her native lover and their native child than have 100,000 Frenchmen at her feet. Circumstances, however, again and again prevent the fulfillment of her life wish and she ends up as the best congai of Indo-China-the congai of the French governor...
...greater part of the permanent exhibition is of framed photographs, such as those of locomotives, stations, a Camden and Amboy engine with driving wheels nine feet in diameter and a smoke-stack ten feet high, and special train of flat cars carrying a consignment of 30 horse-drawn coaches from Concord, N. H. to Omaha, Nebraska...
...seems," O'Brien said, "that the guide, who took the pictures, which are to be shown on Sunday, was climbing an almost perpendicular cliff on the Aiguille du Dru, which rises 12,000 feet above the Mer de Glace, in company with a young guide and an American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while...