Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pathway leading from Birla House to the vine-covered pergola which served as his prayer-meeting place. Slowly he climbed the three steps leading to the pavilion. A stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today for the prayer," said the murderer. "Yes, I am," said Gandhi...
...river bank the procession came to a field as different as possible from the glittering Taj Mahal. This field looked like a junkyard. Here & there water buffalo were grazing. The Department of Public Works had built overnight a square platform of brick and cement, three feet high and twelve feet square. At the four corners were stumps of the sacred peepul tree. On the platform was half a ton of sandalwood, mixed with ghi (melted butter), incense, coconuts and camphor. Gandhi's body was raised to the pyre...
This week the greatest telescope is almost ready. It is housed in a softly revolving dome 137 feet in diameter. The telescope weighs 500 tons, but is so exquisitely mounted that an electric motor not much bigger than an orange turns it on its bearings. Its 200-inch parabolic mirror gathers four times as much nebula light as Mount Wilson's 100-inch mirror. Palomar will see twice as far, and it may tell Hubble whether the universe is really exploding-or whether even stranger things are happening...
...will be carried up inside the dome on a cleverly moving platform to the observer's cage, a cylindrical chamber, six feet in diameter, right in the muzzle of the telescope tube. He will climb into the cage, sit down in a seat which moves as the telescope swings...
...never make the living room big enough," says Wright, "the fireplace important enough, or the sense of relationship between exterior, interior and environment close enough. . . ." One new Wright house, designed for a California cliff top, seems to rear up no feet out of the ocean, like the cliff it stands...