Word: feets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...months ending September 30, 1894, has just been published. The most important events of the year have been the practical trial of the Bruce telescope and the successful operation for several months of the Boyden meteorological station on the summit of the Misti, at a height of 19,200 feet. Unfortunately, early in September the shelter containing the instruments was found to have been broken into and a number of the instruments carried off. Apparently the robbery was committed by two Indians. The property stolen would of course be of no use to the thieves and its intrinsic value would...
...this crisis and also at the moment when the Cid throws his life at the feet of Chimene we feel the full influence of the master hand of Corneille. Le Cid is as remarkable an example of the true loving sympathy of youth as the two old men are of the prating foolishness of advanced years. In fact the only really weak character in the whole play is that of the King who has no distinctive personality or firmness whatever...
...Palace of Gems, will be simply ablaze with electricity. Every one should see "Humpty Dumpty up to Date," with Franz Ebert as Humpty Dumpty, and all the other favorites, Adolph Zink, Ludwig Merkel, Hermann Ring, Bertha Jaegar, Selma Goerner, Ida Mahr and Toni Meister, and a wonderful giant nine feet tall, called Kaleb...
...Thorne '96, of New York City, was elected captain of the team for the coming year. Thorne was fitted for college in New York. He has played on the 'varsity eleven for two years as halfback, and will next year play fullback. He is twenty-three years old, six feet in height, and weighs 175 pounds...
Brooke tried for a goal from the field, but went almost forty feet wide. The ball came out to the 40 yard line, and Hayes kicked to Osgood; but in a minute Pennsylvannia got it on offside play on Harvard's 20 yard line...