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Word: footlong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...François-Poncet's car approached, the doors were swung open by electricity and the Ambassador drove into a 350 footlong, marble-walled underground chamber, brilliantly lighted by bronze lamps. From this chamber the Ambassador was directed through a short, narrow tunnel into a huge, copper-lined elevator outfitted with ten comfortable leather seats. The elevator ascended a shaft bored through the heart of the mountain for 400 feet. At the top M. François-Poncet emerged to behold the new eyrie of Germany's strange, solitary master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fuhrer's Nest | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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