Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About an hour after midnight the U-47 was within 3,200 yards of two battleships at anchor. The submarine was only 650 feet offshore; it was "disgustingly light." The torpedoes were fired, the submarine swung about and a torpedo fired from the stern tubes. After three minutes there was a loud explosion, followed by thundering columns of water and then by columns of fire. The harbor sprang into life. The destroyers in the anchorage were lit up. Cars sped along the highway. Directly opposite the submarine, a car stopped, turned around, and raced back toward town. Thinking the driver...
...first of the 2,778 illustrations in these volumes shows King Or-Nina with his family, neatly gotten up in the latest Sumerian style of 3,000 B.C., i.e., bare feet and chest, a rather hefty skirt made out of hanks of wool, and a basket fitted snugly on his head. One of the last illustrations shows President Lincoln receiving at the White House...
...Forsyth, Howard Reed, and Harold Ziron swept the 35-pound weight throw again, and Don Trimble and Jerry Kanter took first and third in the 16-pound shot. Forsyth, who turns only once before throwing, hit 51 feet, 3 7/8 inches, and Trimble snapped the shot 47 feet, 6 1/8 inches...
Best performances of the afternoon came in the exhibition pole vault and weight throw. In the former, Olympic vaulter A. Richmond (Boo) Morcom beat out Harvard's 1946 IC4A champion Pete Harwood with a hoist of 14 feet. "The barefoot boy from New Hampshire" was invited to come here by Sam Felton, who took time out from his studies at the Business School to heave the 35-pound weight 54 feet, 11 3/4 inches...
...would-be mountain scalars for Yale, inspired by the warmest January 8 in New Haven's history, got stranded on a lonely ledge trying to climb the 300 feet cliff of East Rock, which overlooks the city. Their frenzied cries brought rope-wielding firemen who hauled them to the top, but waiting policemen subdued their premature spring fever by booking them on breach of peace charges. The pair were named as Donald Renkert and Peter Mensh...