Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tower rises to a height of 205 feet 2 inches. The canllon has 61 bells with 48 tones and was cast at John Taylor & Sons Bell-foundry at Loughborough, England. They will be shipped to the States within a few months...
...President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge arrived four curiously wrought pieces of iron with holes punched in them. They were left by one A. H. Kellerman, 70-year-old Wisconsin farmer, who said: "Just give...
...pressure. The Chris Greene drew a length ahead, two lengths, four lengths, five. The Chris Greene's purser appeared on deck with a big sign: "Chris Greene-Rah, Rah!" Thousands of people cheered from the leafy, sun-shot shores. At the finish the Betsy Ann was about 1000 feet behind. A true sportsman, Owner Way promptly boarded the Chris Greene and handed over the Betsy Ann's elk horns. The Senator Cordhill, another Pittsburgh packet, soon challenged the Chris Greene. Rivermen looked for a return of their Golden...
...against bills providing for the creation, by popular vote, of anti-saloon territory, and enforcement of prohibition within such territory. Votes (1915) to stifle in committee bills providing for a state referendum on prohibition. Votes (1907-11) to provide exceptions to the laws prohibiting sale of liquor within 200 feet of a church or school. A vote (1911) for extending the hours when liquor might be sold...
Countess Hella Brandenstein, daughter of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany's most distinguished pioneer in aeronautics, tipped a gilded bottle, allowed a stream of liquid air to cascade over the bow of Germany's new giant dirigible; 763 feet long, 102 feet wide, the 117th dirigible built at Friedrichshafen, and the first to be honored with a christening party. Two strips of canvas fell from the hull, revealed the name "Graf Zeppelin." Countess Hella shrilled: "Mit Glueck, Graf Zeppelin...