Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gymnasium will be, like the pool, in the shape of a half moon. Over its widest part it will be 170 feet, and in it every conceivable apparatus for physical development will be made use of. Overlooking the floor of the gymnasium will be a great balcony, Suspended from the ceiling, where it runs over the gymnasium and circling the entire interior of the building, is to be built a running track 12 feet wide and nine laps to the mile. In the southern portion of the building will be athletic rooms, boxing rooms, fencing rooms and directors' appartments...
...stage, raised three feet above the floor, is complete in mechanical contrivances, and the footlights are to be arranged according to the latest ideas, being able to throw colored lights if necessary. Two windows light the stage and a door has been made at one side to admit scenery...
...photographed a large number of excellent stellar charts of which some very fine specimens have been received in Cambridge. The main station at Arequipa controls many meteorological posts in the neighboring country. The most important of these is situated on the summit of the volcano El Misti, 19200 feet above the level of the sea. At this high post there has recently been set up an automatic meteorograph which runs without care for months at a time. This records the direction and velocity of the wind, and registers continuously the barometric pressure, the temperature, and the humidity of the atmosphere...
John Baird '99, fullback, prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and played his present position on the 'varsity last year. His home is in Philadelphia. Age 19, height 5 feet 9 1-2 in., weight...
...they were brought out; and their representation was dependent on the inner arrangements of the theatre. Until recently it has been universally believed that, in the action of the Greek play, actors and chorus occupied separate parts of the theatre:- the former a narrow stage ten or twelve feet high, the latter the lower orchestra. Professor Doerpfeld maintained that this is incorrect, that, in fact, the Greek theatre had no stage at all. His arguments, richly enforced by plans and photographs upon the screen, were based in large part upon an examination of the remains of the Greek Dionysiac Theatre...