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Word: feet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Addressing the Committee of Yuans, on which sit both the President of China and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek, Marshal Feng drew himself up to his potent height of six feet and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Don't Degenerate! | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...most interesting works is a roll of pictures 13 feet long showing various scenes in the gathering of people to a prize fight. The roll is probably unique and is one of Cruikshank's early works. On display in the same case is a book complete with illustrations of the fight between Crib and Molineux and titled "The Battle" This was done about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

Hunters may fear that they have tularemia if they suddenly feel sharp chills and sweats, if at the same time they have severe headaches, aching pains in the back, hands and feet, prostration. Vomiting, diarrhea and delirium are other signs. Ulcers and swollen lymph glands usually develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rabbit Fever | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...skeleton was thin, undulating, crumbling. The shattered bones of the gangling creature stretched 26 feet; projecting from the body were four chipped, broken appendages. These, the paleontologists decided, had been paddles. They noted with delight that the creature had had three eyes, the third in the middle of its small, narrow head. They classified it as a plesiosaurus,* a marine reptile which perished in the waters covering the spot perhaps 100 or 200 million years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three-eyed Mariner | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...confused with the ichthyosaurus, another, larger reptile with a tremendous head, practically no neck, four complex flippers; nor with the famed giant dinosaur which often attained a length of 70 feet, whose four appendages were limbs adapted for land travel. †The pineal (glandular) body in the human brain, which is subtly related to certain conditions of obesity and certain sexual phenomena, is generally considered to be the vestige of a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three-eyed Mariner | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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