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Word: foot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanta get your foot up on the box?" urged the boy as he eyed Lucius' aging Indian Tread cordovans. "Awful lotta books you got there...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Dangerous Interlude | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

Lucius shuffled and raised his right foot. Just then Miss Schroeder came into view. (She occupied the next alcove on the third level, and he'd had his eye on her for months. One day while she was having lunch he had gone right into her cubicle and learned her name from her books. She had small handwriting. And then he had left everything just as it was, and never said anything. Sometimes he'd stop working and just watch the back of her hair net.) This was too good to miss now, having her see him right there getting...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Dangerous Interlude | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

Harvard said that it would pay the current fair market value of the land--half a million square feet at about five dollars a foot--plus an additional $1,000,000. This extra sum is "to assist the trustees and the operating management of the system to accomplish the necessary relocation and consolidation of the facilities so as to free land for sale...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: University Offers to Buy MTA Property Near River | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

...foot Atlas, present mainstay of the U.S. missile arsenal, thundered aloft in the morning darkness. It hung in the sky as a white dot of light for more than three minutes before fading...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Russians Release Army Trucks After Hindering Road to Berlin; Senate Kills Republican Measure | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

Preliminary plans call for a 40,000 square foot building near the Harvard College Observatory. In addition to complete office and laboratory space, the project would house a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer, a faster model than the one now used by Smithsonian to track earth satellites...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: University to Build at HCO | 2/5/1959 | See Source »

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