Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began flying home...
...dwarf epithet was interesting; Tito's height of 5 feet 7½ inches (average for southern Slavs) is on record in London at Madame Tussaud's Waxworks-whence he sent it along with one of his fancy uniforms to drape his ozocerite likeness. The Literary Gazette's own Joseph Stalin in 1936 had refused to give Tussaud's any data, and they had mistakenly reconstructed...
...bridge will have three arches: two 78 feet wide and 15 feet high and a central one 100 feet wide and 17 feet high--the widest span on the Charles. Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 was consulted; the MDC doesn't want to interfere with the activities of Harvard crews. Both approaches will be continuous-flow rotaries; the MDC doesn't want another such two-headed bottle-neck as the Lars Anderson Bridge. The contract for the rotaries and for the new road on the north shore of the river will be let in July, and the work will...
...Munroe-Langstroth steamshovels started dredging out the gook last Wednesday, when the contract began. A third will swing into action in two weeks, when it gets the necessary engine parts. After they have dug pits 11 feet down from water level and stretching out a few yards from either bank, they will fill the holes with gravel mounds 15 inches higher than present water level, as bases for the abutments...
Flexibility of use was obtained by adopting the modular system of construction. This in practice, came about by constructing the interior of the library in uniform units of space, 18-feet by 24-feet, and bounded at the four corners by supporting columns. These dimensions were chosen because of their suitability for the open stacks, and seminar, office and carrel arrangements...