Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first run, at speeds up to 40 m.p.h., was unspectacular. On the second, Hughes moved the plane up to 90. On the third, the lumbering giant got up to 100 m.p.h., unexpectedly took to the air, flew about a mile at an altitude of 70 feet. There were 30 persons aboard on the initial flight-engineers and technicians. Although flying is what a plane is supposed to do, the event was treated as startling news. (The New York Daily Mirror headlined: "HUGHES TESTS BIG PLANE-IT FLIES...
...last Japanese was captured on Guadalcanal last week. He had been captured twice before, had twice escaped. This time he was ambushed by native constabulary after having been 18 months in the jungle. Though his uniform was in shreds, his feet wrapped in filthy rags, he had not forgotten his manners. He submitted with a reverent bow to the British commandant...
...Dawson Springs, Ky., Senator Alben W. Barkley very nearly missed reaching his 70th birthday next fortnight: the auto he was riding in was struck by another on a bridge. The other plunged 35 feet, injuring the driver's head; Barkley's car stayed aloft, with the Senator inside, uninjured but shaken...
Told that the Annex area was sinking three feet per year. Elstedfodd declared, "This is a Princetonian program." The plucky director added, "Mishmash, they have no muddily instincts most...
...Weld don't talk about whether exuberance or deliberate intention caused the architects to come forth with a scheme costly to a staggering degree. They simply point to the colossally liberal scope of every aspect in that group of drawings. Four "large" meeting rooms are 20 by 65 feet. Ten "small" meeting rooms are 15 by 15. Provision is made for two broadcasting studios. Thirty offices would occupy space 10 by 20 each. Even the 11 rest rooms would boast dimensions...