Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Dwight of Yale, has asked for 1,000 square feet of space for an exhibit at the World's Fair...
...Pickering was the photographing of the planet Mars, yet the careful visual observations were made at the same time which have led to most interesting results. Another event of this visit was the construction of a meteorological station on Mount Chaehacari in Peru at the height of 16,000 feet, 1,000 feet higher than Mt. Blanc and hence the most elevated station of its kind in the world...
Cunningham of the B. A. A. has made the following records: throwing the 56 lb. weight, 34 feet; throwing the hammer 120 feet; putting the shot. 40 feet...
...well and lined up quickly. Ineffective and poor tackling allowed Corbett and Gray to make long gains. Two touch-downs were made in short order and Trafford made a beautiful kick, scoring a goal from the field. Gray rushed for sixty yards and was only downed a few feet from the line. Emmons was slow, though at times he tackled well. Fairchild played a good game at quarter-back...
...many in the University already know, a portion of the Soldiers Field has been prepared for secret practice of the eleven. A fence eight feet high on three sides, and twelve on the Cambridge side, has been built about a levelled space, large enough to allow a strip of ground fifteen feet wide outside of each boundery. Every crack and hole in the fence is to be filled, so that it will be impossible to see from without. The field will be marked out before Thursday when practice there will begin. Until late in the season however, the eleven will...