Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second floor, said Public Buildings Commissioner W. Englebert Reynolds, stays up only "by force of habit." Some of its beams carry ten times their normal stress. The marble grand staircase is in danger of collapse. The heavy (70 Ibs. to the square foot) frescoed ceiling of the East Room has a six-inch sag, had to be shored up with timbers to prevent its caving...
...gloomy, Gothic grandeur of Westminster Abbey, Britain's most hallowed shrine, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee stepped up to a simple wrought-iron stand and drew back an American flag from a shallow niche beside the west door. They uncovered a three-foot-high marble tablet, crowned with an American eagle and inscribed...
...when Freddie presented himself with a couple of friends at the club's dressing room door, he was sternly rebuffed. "You can't come in," snarled an attendant. Freddie was nonplussed. While he and Denis held their reunion at the foot of the steps of the pavilion entrance, George Mann, M.C.C. captain, protested vigorously to the South Africans. Club Secretary Walter Mars was adamant. "I have no objection to professional boxers as a class," he said later, "but I had only to take one look at Mills and his friends to realize they are not the type...
Hickman and Valpey both look for a high-scoring game. This means that Emil Drvaric and Billy Booe may get a chance to match toes against each other. Booe, a 146-pound, five-foot six senior from Shelton, Conn., has kicked 27 straight points after touchdown, six at the end of last year and 21 this fall. Drvaric, considered the "Babe Ruth" of collegiate kickoff and point-after artists, has converted 12 times for the Crimson this year. He is one of 14 Seniors, including the Chipper, who will be playing their last game of football for the Crimson today
While one man grinds away with one camera, the other cameraman loads a 100-foot reel into the other camera...