Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole thing was over before a Marxist could say monarcho-fascist-devia-tionist. One afternoon last week, U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey got to his feet in Manhattan Federal Court and announced unexpectedly: "The Government rests." It had completed the main body of its case against the eleven top U.S. Communists who are charged with conspiracy to advocate violent overthrow of the Government...
...pound, 22-year old future captain established a new Harvard record in the shotput at the Heptagonal Meet here this winter when he heaved the shot 50 feet, 8 inches. He had won both the discus and the shot in every dual meet this spring until Yale's Olympic stars, Jim Fuchs and Vic Frank forced him to settle for two thirds at New Haven Saturday...
...painful fact was that 4,000,000 feet of film still streaming weekly out of five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
Family Circles. In Leeds, England, Robert Davies got a divorce after he charged that his wife pulled the bath mat from under his feet while he was shaving. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Calogera Cassaro, suing for divorce after 64 years of marriage, charged that although her 86-year-old husband is ablebodied, lately he has been living "in idleness, profligacy and dissipation...
Yale won its fifteenth straight dual track meet Saturday in New Haven when it crushed the Crimson varsity 111 to 29. Howie Reed's hammer throw of 159 feet 6 1/2 inches representing Harvard's only clear win in the fifty-third clash with the Blue...