Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ralph Singleton, senior geneticist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, announced that he had "redesigned" the field corn plant, and had reduced its height from 14 to 6 feet to make it easier for a man to reach its top ears...
...While hunting near San Diego, Ronald Earnest, 16, accidentally shot & killed his 14-year-old brother Ralph Jr. Wild with grief, he put the muzzle of his rifle to his own head, pulled the trigger, fell dead a few feet away...
Trying to regain the Gold Cup he won in 1946, Bandleader-Motorboater Guy Lombardo wound up in the choppy Detroit River just after the start of the first heat. He swung sharply to avoid a rival, flipped over, sailed 15 feet through the air, escaped with a broken arm and bruises. His $100,000 speedboat, Tempo VI, was almost a total loss; experts thought they might be able to salvage the engine...
...steel-rimmed glasses and beaded chiffon dress, the little old lady looked like a tintype grandmother. Her birdlike, smiling face was framed in a white lace collar and black ribbon choker; on her feet were pointed little one-button shoes. But there were surprising touches too: as a guard for her wedding ring she wore a blue celluloid chicken band, and one ear had a bright green dab of paint...
...Save Paint. She lays her pictures flat on the table so she can rest her elbows while she is working. Old coffee cans hold her brushes, and on the floor at her feet is a gallon can of flat white paint for sizing the sawed pieces of masonite she paints on. Grandma does her pictures in batches, like cookies, simply to save paint. "I'll use this blue for the sky in all of them, and then I'll take this green for all the trees. That way your paints...