Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 1:10 a.m., a group of students reportedly moved a ticket dispensing machine in the cafeteria several feet...
...This is a fragment of the congratulatory message sent by Thomas A. Edison offering assistance in further experiments to Dr. Bothezaat, who broke the world's helicopter record at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, by remaining in the air two minutes and 45 seconds at a height of 15 feet...
...problems were just as baffling. To aim any missile with accuracy, a missileer must know his own geographic position within a fraction of a mile. Land-based missile crews can set their guidance systems for the target on the basis of their known position. But how, traveling hundreds of feet below the sea, could the Navy subs fix position accurately? An error of a few hundred yards at launching point could mean a wide miss of the target 1,500 miles away. Advances in celestial navigation and radio astronomy systems helped, but the big answer came from two scientists...
...hermits disembarked from the liner Constitution one day last week and looked around Manhattan. They were a long way from their Camaldolese* monastery, high in the Apennines, where they live in solitary cells at least 20 feet apart, where recreation is a twice-weekly chat with their fellows, and a full meal comes meatless and only once a day. The 900-old order had selected Dom Augustine Modotti to found a new monastery somewhere in the U.S. (there are already more than 20 U.S. applications for membership), and he was off with his companion, Dom Aliprando Catani, to look over...
...mosaic, there are wall frescoes, lamps, chancel rails and a whole system of locks. Prausnitz dates the church in the 4th century. One clue: the liberal use of the cross on the floor mosaics, a practice that the church prohibited A.D. 427 on the ground that the feet of worshipers profaned the sacred symbol. A second indication is the floor plan-a long rectangle in the manner of 4th century Roman temples. Definite dating must wait upon other scholars and future excavations...