Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprisingly large number of American schools rallied to the N.S.A. ideal. They guided the stripling organization through conferences and preparatory meetings. Presenting its own mind, its own officers and its own mind, it today stands on its own feet. Drifting far away from the Continent, N.S.A. intends to affiliate with the Soviet-oriented international unit for its "service" functions only, maintaining clear autonomy from the union's political hijinks...
Biggest Inch. In Santa Fe Springs, Calif., near Los Angeles, the first gas came from the "Biggest Inch" this week. The 1,200-mile pipeline will carry about 300,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas a day from the Texas Panhandle to the fuel-starved West Coast. The line, built at a cost of $70 million in a record nine months, took its name from the last 214-mile stretch of 30-inch pipe, biggest "high test" pipeline ever laid...
Four of the seven men Barclay now is alternating as his first string operatives measure at least six feet three inches. Center Bill Prior of last year's Jayvee team tops the quartet at six-six, Captain George Hauptfuhrer is next at six-five, while former Freshman John Rockwell and veteran Steve Davis bring up the rear at six-three each...
Most difficult problem facing the pumpers was draining two deep elevator pits, as three feet of water was estimated in the connecting tunnel with the Union building. Other effects on the construction site of the storm that blanketed New England yesterday were the post-ponement of scheduled concrete pouring and the weakening of the foundation...
...visiting his girl friend when he was under orders to hide out. They thought that the girl friend was being watched by the police. The police were on his trail anyway, replied Siqueiros: he was being tailed by a detective all the time, and 20 feet behind the detective lurked a party comrade. Usually, when he was arrested, he was treated as Mr. Siqueiros, a prominent artist who just happened to have some silly political quirks. But after leading a forbidden May Day parade he was beaten by cops until his body was covered with welts, thrown into solitary...