Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later, when he resigned from the Navy Department to accept his party's nomination (and go down to defeat) as running mate to presidential candidate James M. Cox, it was a mellower F.D.R. who wrote old Josephus Daniels: "You have taught me so wisely and kept my feet on the ground when I was about to skyrocket...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony, the audience saw a small, smooth-haired and handsome man in his late 30s. Holding his fiddle high, he gave his listeners a powerful performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto, with clear round tones and steel-fingered doublestops, that brought the audience to its feet when it was over...
...Episcopal-style evangelism, to be sure. There was no public testimony of the saved, no mourners' bench nor sawdust trail, no Bible-banging nor marimba band. The middle-aged women and young people who came to hear Evangelist Green merely rose to their feet at the proper times or hunched forward in their cane-bottomed seats to pray. But when the week-long mission closed on Sunday night, Bryan Green's audiences had totaled approximately 42,000-an average of about 6,000 a night. Such crowds carried an obvious inference: modern congregations might be ready for some...
...Gong and Grabelsky" yesterday borrowed a large balloon from a local concorn, attached a campaign message, and let it float 400 feet above Widener a little after noon. Today it will fly above Claus Gelotte's camera shop on Massachusetts...
...five minutes later Malo's score on a loose rebound in the Crimson goal mouth forced the game into overtime. After seven battling minutes of the ten-minute extra-play period, Priestley sent the puck through Clark from a scrimmage 10 feet from the nets. The summaries: Brown--3 1 1 1--6 Harvard...