Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fallen Angel. In Seattle, absent-minded John P. Angel drove his car into a service station, stepped out, discovered too late that he was eight feet aloft on a grease rack...
...project prospered from the start. Baltimore parents were delighted with the Country School's broad lawns, surrounded by deep woods. They even accepted the fresh air fad of 1901, when classrooms were built without any glass in the windows. Boys attended class in woolens and mufflers, keeping their feet on bricks which had been heated in a furnace. The boys fared well (the fresh air, it was claimed, enabled them to do two years' work in one). But constant colds among the faculty finally ended the experiment...
...than anyone else on the team, rubbed dirt on his hands and strode up to bat. He swung viciously at the first pitch, trying too hard. The next pitch was high but Cookie swung again-and this time connected. The ball screamed toward right field, hit the fence six feet over Outfielder Tommy Henrich's head...
...wiped out a herders' settlement in the Swiss Alps 200 years ago. Far below in the village of Aire, the roar was heard in the middle of a clear June night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost a husband, son or brother. Thérèse, who was pregnant, had lost her young husband Antoine, and her uncle Seraphin, with whom he shared...
Varsity center forwarded Roy. Heisler dissolved a 2-2 tie in the second overtime period at West Point yesterday afternoon, and gave the Grimson soccer squad a 3 to 2 upset victory over Army when he blasted in a bad-angle kick from 30 feet...