Word: foot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...About the year 1848 the Medical Association convened at Richmond, Va., and [Dr. Alban S. Payne*] attended as was his custom. One night . . . the [25 or 30] members were returning from the late session. . . . Upon reaching the foot of Capital Hill, the door of a well-known restaurant flew open, as the redoubtable Bill Patterson emerged therefrom. . . . A very Hercules in size and strength, [he] appeared more formidable than usual, having indulged heavily . . . and being in one of his worst moods...
...Freshman talent spent the vacation pounding the cinders. As a result the squad is in excellent shape for this time of year, except for Ros Brayton, miler, who got soaked in the eye with a shuttlecock while playing badminton; Bob Partlow, Jump artist, who still has a bad foot; and Coach Mikkola, who has a whing-ding of a cold...
...Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole span drooped a foot below its usual level...
Three policemen and 100 cheering students watched the next champion, M. I. T.'s six-foot-four Albert E. Hayes Jr., wash down 42 fish with four bottles of chocolate soda. He stopped, explained Freshman Hayes, because '42 were his class numerals. Said he: "You lay the goldfish well back on the tongue, let it wiggle forward till it hits the top of the throat, then give one big gulp. Same effect as swallowing a raw oyster...
Professor Hoffmann's virtual monopoly of German news photography has made him one of his country's richest men. He sells more than a million Hitler portraits a year. His Hitler pictures range from miniatures to 8-by-12-foot posters which sell for 1,050 marks ($420). For ordinary newspictures his standard price to German publications is 20 to 25 marks, but U. S. rights to a particularly fetching photograph of der schöne Adolf sometimes bring as much as $250. Bildberichterstatter Hoffmann is not the only gainer by his deal with his great & good friend...