Word: feet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview before he went to Australia for the project, Professor of Astronomy Jonathan E. Grindlay said he expected the balloon to rise approximately 130,000 feet, above 99.7 percent of the earth's atmosphere...
...balloon is a scientific research baloon, an enormous, very thin plastic bag about 600 feet high--about as high as the Prudential Building," he says...
What has been occupying most of Roth's time these days is a much more extensive research project--the revision of an entire family of Australian cockroaches. The project is based out of the centerpiece of Roth's MCZ office, a cabinet about four-feet high with four compartments, each holding about 20 trays of pinned cockroach specimens. totaling about 6000 specimens...
...railings are about 18 inches apart and the banister is at least three feet off the ground," said Dominik Wujastyk, a visiting Sanskrit and Indian Studies scholar and father of two small children, who live in the house...
...Carpenter accident occurred April 16 when three year-old Jacob Smith fell 12 feet from a stairway. That incident led to a risk assessment reevaluation of Faculty of Arts and Sciences buildings...