Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After several days of careful work, the diggers uncovered more postholes outlining a 7½ ft. by 12 ft. building. The floor inside was of earth hard packed by Pinto Man's feet, and in the dirt around the house were grinding stones and pestles his womenfolk had used to prepare his food. Since the postholes were vertical and some five inches in diameter, the house could not have been a lean-to like those built by some primitive Indians. It must have been made of substantial materials, with walls and a roof...
...cluttered laboratory with a view of a garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...
...work." ¶ "The problem of higher education in America is not the problem of quantity. Whatever our shortcomings in this regard, we have a higher proportion of our young people in higher education than any country I can think of; and we certainly have more teachers and more square feet per student in bigger, newer buildings than any other nation in the world." ¶ "The educators of America will be entitled to the support they demand when they can show that they know where they are going and why. The . . . report . . . suggests that the time is still...
...Blimey. Knight's plans are grandiose. Technicolor is supplying him with 800,000 feet of negative, 19 specially adapted cameras, 60 specially trained cameramen and technicians. He will dress his whole team in green trousers and white blazers, and provide motorized scooters to zip them about the grounds at Wembley. Knight himself will direct the whole business from a control booth just below the royal box-dangling his crews at the ends of eight miles of telephone line. This special telephone exchange, will be officially known as "Corinthian," already unofficially shortened to Cor-Blimey...
...Haven, Whittemore will have a road to run on which steam is already up. Palmer did a good job guiding the road through a twelve-year bankruptcy, got it back on its feet with its indebtedness greatly reduced. He also bought most of the 250 diesel engines and 180 streamlined postwar passenger cars (most of them with reclining seats and separate smoking compartments), which make the New Haven one of the most up-to-date roads in the East. A short-haul road with an eye on the passenger business, it ranks tops with New York commuters...