Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holbrook surprised everybody including himself by getting third place in the javelin with a throw of 178 feet, 3 inches, the best of his life. Teammate Don Trimble stayed home in Cambridge. On the basis of his performances this spring, shotputter Geoff Tootell, another of Coach Mikkola's "cripples," would have placed third...
Rather undescriptively nicknamed "the Broomstick," the new turbine is a contraption 17 inches wide at its widest and 5 feet long. It delivers 160 h.p. but weighs only 250 Ibs. An equivalent piston engine weighs about...
...kitchens of the two hotels where the dead were trucked out at night-and buried, trucks and all, the same night. The doctors knew the botulism was only a disguise for death. It was the radioactivity of the corpses that brought out the road-building machines to pour ten feet of concrete into the mass grave the power shovels...
...anarchists. But not before she has given Hyacinth a taste of princely living and watched him fall in love with her. Says the princess: "I'm convinced that we're living in a fool's paradise, that the ground's heaving under our feet . . . I'm one of those who believe that a great new deal is destined to take place...
...Bolles, cautions as always, is careful to point out that a race as short as 2000 meters (39 feet less than a mile and a quarter) is not always a fair test of the best crew. One small mistake can wreek the plans of any coach...