Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spectators so that yesterday many of them came around with mirrors to dazzle the fielders. The firearms, also, were brought to much closer quarters, some of the shotguns being discharged at the first baseman within a couple of yards of him. A yacht cannon was fired within five feet of the '94 catcher so that the wadding struck him in the back...
...museum of the Leland Stanford University is just completed, and is the first college structure ever made entirely of concrete. It covers 20,000 square feet of ground. Fifteen thousand articles, collected by Mrs. Stanford, are ready to be shipped...
...cedar shell which has just been built for Yale by Oliver, the Harlem boat builder, is 63 feet 3 inches long and weighs 260 pounds. By the terms of the contract the price to be paid is $550 with an additional $500 if the crew uses the boat in the race and wins. The Yale Navy has also given an order to Waters of Troy for a paper boat. The two shells will be taken to New London and given a fair trial, and the faster will be used in the race...
...SALE. - Cape cat boat 18 feet; fast and able. In first rate condition; new sail last year. Centreboard. Is at present in Portsmouth, N. H. Address...
...unlikely that Acton, M. S., may prove useful on the Mott Haven team. Recently in the gymnasium he put the shot 40 feet on almost the first trial. Before he came to this country he was a remarkably good man with both the hammer and shot...