Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea for the building was conceived by Mr. W. B. Foshay, who has taken his inspiration from the Washington Monument at Washington, D. C. The building, which is a tower, rising from a two-story base, is 447 feet and three inches in height above the street. It is 81 by 87 feet at the base and 59 by 65 feet at the top. It is as far as we know the only commercial building in the World that has sloping sides and where the set back occurs at the second floor placing the building proper away from street noises...
Thus, spoke one day last week M. Maurice Bokanowski, Minister of Commerce and Aviation, director of the Postal Service. A few minutes later he stepped into an airplane which rose unsteadily to an altitude of 300 feet. Suddenly a sheet of flame shot from the motor. The plane crashed down in flames. Two hours later M. Bokanowski's body was extricated from the twisted steel...
...thousand feet above Chicago, Jack Cope stepped out the cabin door of his airplane, counted 28 before he pulled the parachute cord, landed buoyantly among a golf foursome. In the 13½ seconds before the parachute opened he had fallen 3,400 feet, a new sheer drop record...
Sergeant Boes, army flier, once descended 2,200 feet before pulling the cord. Dropper Cope modestly attributed his record to confusion. He had intended to count only...
While her club was still swinging, he heard a dull crack. Rosa Ponselle toppled over at his feet. A ball sliced by an unknown golfer had struck her forehead just above the eyes. She was unconscious with a slight concussion of the brain. Nonetheless the woman's unbeaten will to sing which got her vocal lessons, during her Meriden. Conn., poverty, carried her the next evening to sing at Lake Placid for the benefit of the Saranac Lake Society for the Control of Tuberculosis...