Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every indication that the new course would prove even faster than the old. Measurements were taken at different points on the river, with the United States Government map of the Thames as a guide. The width of the river from shore to shore is given as follows: Start, 2000 feet; 1-2 mile, 2500 feet; 1 mile, 1250 feet; 1 1-2 mile, 2250 feet; 2 mile (directly opposite United States naval station), 1300 feet; 2 1-2 mile, 2700 feet; 3 mile, 2300 feet; 3 1-2 mile, 2700 feet; 4 mile (finish), 1450 feet...
...lead, now the other. Coleman who rowed in Goodrich's boat unfortunately slipped his stretcher but kept on pluckily in time with the rest. Very gradually and by the hardest kind of driving Perkins's men finally lifted their boat ahead, crossing the finish line just eight feet before Capt. Goodrich's crew...
...February, Columbia will open her new gymnasium which has cost $500,000. The building includes an exercise hall 170 feet long by 130 feet wide, a handball room, a room for boxing and wrestling, and a swimming and rowing tank which is the best equipped in the world. This tank is semi-circular in form, with a diameter of 100 feet and a depth of from five to ten feet. Electric lights, protected by plate glass and placed on the bottom will illuminate the water in the tank. The crew will use this tank for indoor practice...
...back of the house removed to the east side of the main building and placed in line with it. A piazza of the same width as that of the main building but with no roof has been built in front of the ell and another float 47 feet long by 20 wide, placed. Thus the eights will have a float of their own and the difficulty of carrying the shells through the crowded main building which has been experienced heretofore, overcome...
...piazza ten feet wide has been built between the ell and the main building extending round behind it and for a short distance along the western side in order to form a porch in front of the side door. Two doors will open on this piazza from the back of the main building. Between the buildings the piazza is left open but at the side and in the rear is roofed over...