Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gloomy prediction that the world's supply of iron was approaching exhaustion. By 1902, the Minnesota deposits, almost unlimited, were yielding more than the mines, were outranking the Michigan and Wisconsin ranges. The Minnesota ore lay right at the earth's surface, or buried only a few feet. The iron-bearing substance was earthy, not rocky. All that men had to do was shovel it up and cart it away to the smelters...
Symbolic, indeed, is the giant pineapple, 64 feet high, made of steel, containing 100,000 gallons of water, which supplies the automatic sprinkler system of the largest fruit canning factory in the world- the James D. Dole's Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Mr. Dole is perhaps the richest resident of Hawaii and its most ardent publicist. Another famed Dole, the late Sanford Ballard (TIME, June 21, 1926), was responsible for stirring up the revolution which ousted Queen Liliuokalani, was the first and only President of Hawaii (1894-1900), was a leader in getting the U. S. to annex the islands...
Belgian Congo. Dim news from dimmer Africa tells of Negro giants seven feet and more tall. To study them Explorer Paul C. Hoefler and Writer Harold Austin, are on their way to Mozambique on the east coast of Africa. Thence they will work westerly across the Lake Nyasa country into the Belgian Congo uplands...
...some apparently metaphysical Baedeker which directs him wherever the fates most joyfully convene. During the War he was on the bridge of the transport Minnehaha when it was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The ship sank so rapidly that it literally shot out from under its Captain's feet. He calmly swam about, assisted twelve wallowing survivors into lifeboats. Then, through long grey hours he bobbed about in icy water, blowing air from his huge lungs into a leaky life preserver, until finally he heard the drawl of a familiar voice, "Oh I say, Claret, is that...
...size since we left New York. At 4:30 a. m. heavy squalls struck us unexpectedly with terrific force and the wind, with a velocity of forty to fifty miles, made us heel over so that the gauge registered 25 degrees. The lee rail was buried under two feet of water. "I was sleeping soundly at the time, but awoke suddenly to find myself lying jammed up against a bureau across the room from my bunk. The reason for this rude awakening was that I had been thrown clear over the canvas strip attached along the bed to prevent just...