Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City officials totted up the results of a year's vandalism in public parks: 1,000 trees ruined, 11,000 square feet of windowpanes smashed,* 500 wire trash baskets destroyed, 4,500 light fixtures broken, five miles of slats bashed from park benches...
...those 30 miles of falls and rapids that the true riches of the Saguenay lay. Here, the real kingdom of the Saguenay was to arise, an enclave of modern industrialism in ancient Quebec. For in those 30 miles was a drop of 300 feet from the level of Lake St. John to tidewater, and a flow of 50,000 cubic feet a second. From that, hydroelectric engineers generate i^ million kilowatts-enough to make 1,000 tons of aluminum...
...Tradition is all right," he admits, "but there must be close to 2000 board feet of lumber, in that damned thing." Purchasing this pine plus paying the carpenters and laborers required to make the Commencement deadline costs the University several thousand dollars every year...
...Varsity men who did score can be counted on the fingers of one hand: Felton, Thorndike, Lockett, Torrey, and Holbrook. Felton set a new Heps record of 178 feet, 3 inches. John Thorndike finished third in the same event. Felton also got fourth place in the discuss...
Pole vaulter Bud Lockett was taken to the infirmary after he injured himself clearing 13 feet, and is now on crutches. Deprived of his three shots at 13 feet, 4 inches, he still finished in a triple tie for first, while Owen Torrey tied for fourth at 12 feet...