Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere along its line, the Purple has average-size football players. There is Jim Dieckleman, a 5-foot-9, 192-pound end who starred in the 1945 Holy Cross-Boston College game, and won the Edward O'Melia trophy for his performance. The other end is Tom Kelleher who shines on defense and specializes in circus catches of the forward pass...
William A. Tuttle '48 plunged to his death yesterday when his Chevrolet, coupe crashed through a 60-foot section of fence on the Harvard Bridge and plummeted 30 feet into the Charles River...
...foot-square chunk of wood and a shower of smaller pieces plummetted down from the Eliot tower yesterday initiating a thorough investigation by the University maintenance crew...
Little Ben Hogan, the golfer of the year, squatted on the 18th green at Oakmont Country Club (Calif.) last week, studying a downhill five-foot putt. His opponents regard the process with some awe; Hogan habitually comments that a green is a "hard one to think"; he doesn't say that it is hard to play. He sank the five-footer...
...millionth of the distance between the earth's poles and its equator. Since this distance is hard to determine accurately, it was abandoned, and the standard meter bar put in its place. Most nations have copies of it. Even the stiff-necked British check their "standard foot" against the meter...