Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When they landed at Dunkerque, France, before proceeding to St. Ingbert, the six Loewenstein servants all said that M. Le Capitaine had been on board at the beginning of the flight and was discovered not to be on board when the plane was flying 4,000 feet above mid-Channel...
...survivor, José Aguila, babbled: "lost our rudder and were dashed between two great rocks . . . waves 30 feet high . . . every lifeboat sank ... we fought for bits of floating timber ... I was knocked senseless and flung by the waves stark naked on the beach. ... I and a few others were saved only because God is great...
Sprawling like a high-humped lizard on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean is a mighty ridge, its lazy length (about 50 degrees N. lat. to 40 degrees S. lat.) following the S-shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
...world's records were broken in the trials: Edward Hamm of Georgia Tech broad-jumped 25 feet, 11⅛ inches; Lloyd Hahn of the Boston A. C. ran 800-metres in 1 minute, 51 seconds...
...sooner was the grave charge of "conspiracy against the state" read out to Bela Kun than he bounded to his feet and roared at the judges: "I am always conspiring for the welfare of the Soviet State, which is even now triumphing over your petty bourgeoise bureaucracy! . . . There is nothing criminal about my activities, which are always purely political...