Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polevaulter Gene Lockett, third-ranking man in the East this spring with a jump of 13 feet, is still hobbling around on the ankle he injured at West Point a couple of weeks ago. And large Geoff Tootell, who would probably have scored in the shot, is currently ineligible...
...intricate, crowded feet (scaled roughly at a foot to a mile), the scroll follows a meandering road downriver, from dawn to dusk. In its 33-mile course, the road enters the gates of the high-walled Sung capital Pien-liang, and becomes a city street lined with pawnshops, paint shops, butcher shops, restaurants, lute shops, wineshops, needle shops, antique shops...
...Casey calls himself "an ex-scholar," but he still teaches. Almost every undergraduate takes "Casey's Lit," a course that rambles amiably from Dante to Spenser to whatever pops into Casey's head. At his weekly talk in chapel, students still "wood" him (stamp their feet in applause). And after big games, they still gather about his Colonial house and yell "We want Casey!" until he emerges, beaming and blushing...
...rush of profit-taking chipped off some of Saturday's gains. Then a wave of new buying shoved the industrial averages up 0.19 to 190.44, third new high in as many days. Almost 3,050,000 shares were traded. It looked as if the bull market had its feet firmly planted...
Would Young be able to "revolutionize" travel on the Central and "put it back on its feet" as he promised? ICC thought that whatever improvements he made in Central would not make up for the harm to other roads. Furthermore, Young's stock holdings were too small to guarantee that he could make the improvements he promised. Said ICC: C. & O. is controlled by Alleghany Corp. through an interest of only 3.34%, and Alleghany is controlled by Young through an interest of less than 1%. Young's interest in Central, "when traced down through Alleghany...