Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After months of entreaty, a 76-year-old Fosston, Minn, farmer named Walter Morgan got a pilot to take him aloft for a parachute jump. He leaped out of the plane at 1,800 feet, gave 2,000 spectators near heart failure by letting himself fall free until he was halfway to the ground. Then he yanked his rip cord, landed calmly in a field, said: "That's what an old man can do when he lets liquor alone...
...puzzled a little about losing the ball. But what really gets me is how the sports writers can tell one helmeted man from another when they're running like hell fifty feet away in seventeen different directions with no numbers on their backs. "It's easy," one of the writers tells me. "See that prance? Well, whenever you see that, it's Nick Athans...
...girls compared the size of the window opening to that of a single newspaper page, with the window ledge approximately four feet from the floor...
Hugh K. Foster '50 photographed 1,500 feet of the 6,000-foot film that opened yesterday at Loew's State and Orpheum theaters in Boston...
During his stay in Antarctica on the "Operation High Jump," Foster shot over 20,000 feet for the movie. The show's cast consists for the 4,000 men from the U.S. Navy who sailed with Byrd. Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery, and Van Heflin speak the commentary...