Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still other advantages are gained. By devouring, the biology specimens, hundreds of square feet of floor space, formerly used to store the preserved animals, will be freed for some worthy project such as a housing development. The University meat supply would become constant and nutritive, and several overworked deans, now in charge of meat procurement, could return to their former jobs as floorwalkers in Widener...
Clothes from the drive at one time filled the basement room of PBH to an average depth of four feet...
...rare bird, all nine feet of him complete with tall feathers, will parade atop an automobile on Massachusetts Avenue opposite Widener Library...
...Charles G. Ross, the President's long-faced press secretary, did not smile. He did not know that the photographers had arranged the flight with one of the President's naval aides. Ross confiscated the photographers' plates and 400 feet of movie film, because nobody had his permission for the trip...
Shears & Shorts. When the newsreels came back, Truman aides trimmed out 21 feet (showing the Winter White House and a nearby naval installation), and Ross's face was saved, technically at least. They released all the informal beach scenes that Ross had wanted to suppress. Later the President did his best to bail out Ross. Jokingly, he told newsmen that "the Boss" (Mrs. Truman) had warned him: "Don't you have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever...