Word: foot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major problem, however, is to protect from unnundation large sites such as Philae, and Abu Simble, which cannot be removed. The former, Brew said, is "about the size of the Harvard Yard," while the latter is distinguished by 75-foot carved statues of Ramses II guarding the entrance to a series of rock-hewn temple chambers...
Suggested methods include the building of coffer dams around sites to protect them from the expected 180 to 200 foot rise in water level...
...claw of a derrick. Dressed in their holiday leather knickers and green felt hats, the wrestlers wound their legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn a foot from the center of the oak table. During minute-long deadlocks, noses began to bleed from the strain...
...proposed ten-floor Health Center at Holyoke St. and Massachusetts Ave. would not exceed that block's 100-foot "business B" zone limit, either, McClennan said...
Consequently, the University could profit from the Superior Court decision only if it built on Brattle St. (a 35-foot, "residential A" district) or exceeded the 65 and 100-foot limits around the Yard...