Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the same result. Groza, a wilful old man who had to win, brought his own umpire, a burly sergeant of the security police with an outsize Luger on his hip. If Low aced the Premier, he was "Not ready. Serve again." If Groza's return hit three feet outside the baseline, the sergeant would give Low a stern look, toggle his holster and grunt: "Goot!" And no matter where Low's ball hit, if the Premier couldn't get it, it was always "oot!" "Naturally," says Low, "I didn't beat the Premier...
...kind to crow about it. "I don't aim to get caught if anything happens," said Farmer Clarence Horton. Horton, who farms 200 acres on a 50-50 basis with the owner, started from scratch 20 years ago; the last five years have set him firmly on his feet. He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders. "I have bought everything I am going to buy," said Horton. "I've got a full line of equipment, about $10,000 worth, I guess, and I'm going...
Summer snows rest eternally on the high, craggy peaks of the Russian Caucasus mountains where the loftiest pinnacle in Europe, Mt. Elbrus, reaches 18,481 feet into the sky. Yet the deep green Caucasus valleys are lush with camphor trees, tangerines, bananas and even tropical palms. There, Caucasian tradition has it, the Garden of Eden was located, and there, as in Author James Hilton's mythical Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, native tribesmen live an incredibly long time. Ages well over 100 are commonplace in the Caucasus, a land of mixed nationalities which include gypsies from India, Turks, pure...
...emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each) at his feet...
...owned it, peppered the pitching for a .340 batting average, and hit 30 home runs. When the Tigers brought him into Briggs Stadium at the tag end of last season, Johnny drew a bead on the first big league ball ever pitched to him and sent it sailing 340 feet into the left-field stands...