Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is much more to the Summer School than the nightly collection of hungry males ogling the windows of female - filled Wiggles-worth, the sight of a bare nail-polished foot extended upon a chair during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed...
...members complained about the distance from the Yard, which is seven minutes distant by foot, three minutes away by bicycle...
...best when fighting to windward in a running sea. Free to move fast and safely in her yawning cockpit, her crewmen could put their stabilizing weight where it was needed. But some British experts were grumbling that Scottish Designer David Boyd, 55, had made Sceptre too rugged. With a foot less waterline length (45 ft. v. 44 ft.), Sceptre's displacement is 68,000 Ibs. compared to 56,800 for Columbia. While Columbia's bow knifes through waves at the waterline, Sceptre bashes them with her barrel chest. Even British Helmsman Graham Mann guardedly admitted...
...denying the petition of a group of local residents to keep the proposed building within the 35-foot zoning height limit, Master William H. Lewis, Jr. '26 found for the church on the two basic issues: that the restriction "would involve severe hardship to the respondent Church Corporation," and "that the 35-foot height restriction...does not apply to the Church...
...addition to finding that the Church's planned 57-foot roof-apex "is the absolute minimum height permitting the use of three altars," which is traditionally required by the Church, Lewis denied other allegations of the petitioners...