Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than the "rookeries" they replaced and use but 23% of the land compared to the rookeries' 60-70%. As for their height, "neither the Metropolitan nor public-housing officials can build two-story cottages or garden apartments housing a hundred people an acre on $8 to $10 a foot slum land. Mr. Mumford's funny arithmetic is based on the assumption that some private Santa Claus was . . . aching to buy this enormously expensive property, tear down and throw away all the old tenements, rebuild the slums, and pay the city full taxes...
...week went a story of how the Soviet government wished to commemorate Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. They opened a competition for Soviet sculptors to submit designs for a memorial. Most efforts depicted the com poser seated at a piano or working on a score. The winning design: a twelve-foot-high bronze figure of Stalin, listening - to the music of Tchaikovsky...
...Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps and supply depots, 8,000-foot pillars of black smoke drifted in the still, frosty air. For once, the Reds were not going to capture Nationalist supplies...
Since the tracks are arranged opposite each other in pairs, not in strides, the creature must have hopped. And the hops were short-only about a foot long. It must have been a clumsy monster that hopped sluggishly under the giant ferns and spreading horsetail trees which later became Pennsylvania's famous coal. But it was doing all right for its period: vertebrates had only recently learned how to live on the land at all. Short hops were a big improvement on slow, fishlike floundering...
Claflin was wrestling don Louria when Louria caught his foot in a tight hold and Claflin fell on his back. He was helped to the Blockhouse medical room where cold water was applied in reduce the swelling...