Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Club." During his first summer vacation from Princeton, he joined a summer stock company that included Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Mildred Natwick, and he directed one play. In his senior year, he won a scholarship to the Moscow Art Theater, where he sat for eight months at the feet of the great Stanislavsky...
Crash warning radars were first demonstrated by Howard Hughes and installed on his Trans World Airline (TIME, May 12). They flash lights (some of them also sound horns or buzzers) when the plane comes within 1,000 or 2,000 feet of an obstacle, either ahead or below. Chief value: the pilot is warned that an unseen mountain, or other dangerous "terrain," is close. The warning gives him time to climb out of trouble...
Lockett Hits 13 Feet...
Sophomore vaulter Lockett nailed the other three points in the Crimson's total by tying for second place at 13 feet with George Coleman of Villanova and John Eustis of Yale. Eustis was only one of many Eli point-getters...
Saturday it was a hulking football player named George Marsanskis, from the University of Maine, who edged Felton by wheeling the iron ball 56 feet, 11 inches on his sixth and final throw--2 1/2 feet better than he had ever done before. Sam, consistent as always, was leading up to this point, with a left of 55 feet, 10 inches plus several 54-footers...