Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation of the dead...
...hundred medium-sized motor cars are less ponderous than its weight of 260 tons. Taller than a five story house (55 feet), the single shaft of stone is too large to be carried by any railway car in Italy. Yet last week Signer Benito Mussolini commanded that the monolith be moved to Rome, there to become "The Mussolini Monument." How to obey...
...some two blocks long (763 feet) and her name is Count Zeppelin, nyth rigid airship of famed Zeppelin progeny. Last week, out of her hangar at Friedrichshafen, Germany, she emerged for her maiden flight, a short one. Her pilot was her designer-Dr. Hugo Eckener. She carried a crew of 30 and Lieut. Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. Navy, lord of the Los Angeles...
...plans for the building specify a ten story structure of 100 feet in height with stores on the first floor, and office suites on the second floor. The city building ordinance restricts the height of buildings in that zone to eighty feet. The restrictions of the ordinance would have to be set aside before construction on the apartments could begin. Mr. Emery, in speaking before the board wished to know what assurance adjacent property owners would have, once the zoning restrictions had been laid to one side, that any sort of objectionable structure might not later be erected...
...first floor of the new addition will provide two new lecture rooms, exact duplicates of the lecture rooms in the present building. In addition it will contain the dean's and librarian's offices, and several seminar rooms. The new West Wing which will be 114 feet long and 58 feet wide, will have on the first floor a number of professor's rooms, cataloguing and periodical rooms...