Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall Plan was originally set up, as Paul Hoffman likes to say, "to get Europe on its feet and off our backs." It made U. S. products available to countries ordinarily unable to pay for them, hoping to build up these nations so that they could eventually resume normal trade relations with...
...that (1) Europe cannot produce as well and as efficiently as the U. S.; (2) As long as this technical backwardness continues, free trade between the continents is probably impossible. This is a reasonably short-run proposition; some day technological progress may put Europe very much back on its feet. But even ECA admits this day will...
...ashes of Graham McNear '50, Mountaineering Club secretary who feel 1500 feet to his death near Mt. Blanc this summers, will be interred in California some time this week, club officials announced yesterday...
...split second later he hit Sprek on the ledge and threw him 120 feet into the valley. McNear's own body cleared the rocks and hurtled another 1400 feet. He fell through space more than 10 seconds before landing...
Once the game begins, the noise really starts. The head cheer leader has a P.A. system to give instructions to the rooters. Every time the team comes out of the huddle, the rooting section omits a mighty rear. On a close play, everyone stamps his feet, creating thunder before the rear. Cheers are frequent, and one tradition soaked cheer, the venerable "Axe Yell," is reserved all year long for a crucial point in the Big Game. When it finally comes, the whole stands fall into a hush as 7000 rooters boom out the tones of this famous chant. The inspired...