Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams the dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.... Before the end, one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy, the dynamo was not so human as some, but it was the most expressive...
Billy Bruton opened the Braves' half of the first with a 375-foot homer into the right field bleachers. Red Schoendienst then bounced a double past Bauer to the right field fence. After Turley managed to send a third strike past Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron worked him for a walk, and Wes Covington singled to center, scoring Schoendienst...
While the cause of the fire has not been determined by the Fire Marshal's office, Crimmens said that it definitely started at the foot of an emergency stairwell leading from the basement to the Club, working its way up through the stairwell, which acted as a chimney, to the roof. Fire damage was limited to the stairwell and a few adjoining rooms, but water damage was present throughout the entire building. The Union, which adjoins the building, was unhurt...
James S. Lentz, assistant football coach, was the sole resident of the Club when the fire broke out at 12:05 a.m. Discovering that his telephone had gone dead, he drove to the fire station at the foot of Quincy Street to turn in the alarm...
...addition to this damage, which Kirklin estimated to be around $2000, about two-thirds of the band's music was destroyed or damaged by fire and water. Over a foot of water had accumulated in the band room...