Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Army C-47, of which Gruin says "The pilot was a cocky, young, U.S.-trained Chinese who had never flown this remote, desolate route, tricky with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street. We planned to fly back with our pilot but, luckily, chance intervened...
Last night's PBH'S department of clarification clarified. De-crypted, the message called for a couple of 'Cliffedwellers, "as close to five feet as possible," who care to be sawed in half for a PBH settlement house show in Hallo-we'en night, Friday, October...
Before the Corporation puts its final approval on the use of the lot, the Council will pool car owners on their willingness to use the lot. Its distance from the Houses seems to be its chief weakness. Yet, says Lally, the lot is only 1600 feet from Eliot House...
This will entail securing pencils and all the everyday paraphernalia which somehow isn't known today overseas. Like Salzburg, such a capsule-scale project serves as "an example, to show what is possible, so that other can follow up in helping to get European education back on its feet again...
...accent. Dixie, in fact, won out over Hey-bop-a-re-bop as the most popular song of the weekend. At the football game, its initial chords elicited correct posture even in the Negro stands behind the end zone. At the pregame rally, Dixie brought every Southerner to his feet. The Cavalier football squad remained seated...