Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First. "A Touch of the Times" was financed on less that $2000, with a final cost per foot so low that Hollywood could well stand to take a lesson. And secondly, as an undergraduate organization, Ivy is doing much to increase respect nationally for student ability and professionalism. So far, Ivy's company at Harvard has been probably the most successful of college movie clubs...
Another freshman, captain of this year's team, Bill Geick will broad-jump against the English, together with Charlie Haase of Yale. Neither of the Americans has come close to the 22 foot distance that Cambridge star Edwards has been able to jump on several occasions this year...
...from the ranch house, they find the tracks of an enormous cat. When Curt goes back to get supplies for the pursuit, daydreaming Arthur is jumped by the panther and killed. Gnawed by guilt, Curt sends back his brother's body lashed to a horse, takes off on foot to track down...
...pitching area is about nine feet long--three and a half feet of fairly level payment followed by a gradual rise for five and a half feet, at the end of which is a foot-high ledge. Pennies can be ricocheted off this ledge or rolled up to it in any manner. "Leaners" are particularly desirable, although there is always the chance that they'll be caromed away from the ledge by somebody else's toss...
Weinbaum began manufacturing his stories during the early '30s. He populated Mars with clever, ostrichlike creatures who could learn snatches of human speech. On Jupiter's moon, lo, he placed giggling "loonies," dimwits with balloon-shaped heads and five-foot necks-not to mention six-inch "slinkers," nasty pests that looked like black rats wearing capes. Science fictioneers credit Weinbaum with two important contributions to their field. Where predecessors had concentrated on gadgetry and ordinary men, he tried to create characters for his non-human aliens, tried to weave his doughpots and other planetary faunas into his plots...