Word: foot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgia Tech safety, after Riegels was finally tackled by a teammate one foot from his own goal, proved to be the margin of victory...
...made by the human larynx, mouth, breath, tongue, teeth and lips. With electrical filters, attenuators, frequency changers, etc. they found that they could produce 23 basic sounds; that intelligible speech could be synthesized from various combinations of these sounds, controlled by a skilled operator manipulating a keyboard and foot pedal...
...flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...
...items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with its 11,000 items (including 84 brands of coffee), its 550,000-square-foot Chicago plant, its warehouses in 18 cities...
Last week Mayor Wilson's nearly completed 1,000-acre memorial to himself ran into an obstacle. Some 3,000 feet dead east of the 5,000-foot east-west "instrument-landing" runway lies historic Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack...