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Britain's Vicky was apparently more ambitious. Her body, eleven feet long, had only four-foot wings, but they were expected to hold her up in true, level flight. If her successors really fly level, and reach the planned 900 m.p.h., the British may claim one of the major credits toward building a supersonic plane...
...miles across the North Channel to Scotland. He covered nearly half the distance in seven hours, but then the treacherous currents and high seas forced him to give up. Last week Tom tried again. Conditions were wretched: all night there were thunderstorms with hail and wind that whipped up four-foot waves; at dawn there were thick, swirling mists so that his escorts in motor boats sometimes lost sight of him. Fifteen hours and 25 minutes after he had left Donaghadee, Tom Blower plodded up the beach in a misty little cove five miles from the Scottish village of Port...
Beside the members of his husky flock, pint-sized (5 ft. 2½ in.), bookish Pastor Burger looks even smaller than he is. But he has a voice that can outshout any of them, and he knows how to use a picka-roon to nudge the four-foot "blocks" from their great stacks into the river, and how to help sluice them through the dams with a pike pole. "Wish I had a soft job," the men sometimes yell at him when he comes by in his red and black checked jacket; but they laugh when they...
That wasn't all. John also set up urns and a fancy granite stone which was inscribed: "Kindly Keep Off the Memorial." Then he surrounded the whole business with a four-foot marble wall-he didn't want strangers' children...
Armed Force. In Savannah, Mrs. Violet Mackey, animal-farm owner, tangled with a four-foot alligator that clamped onto her arm, vainly struggled to get free, finally dragged the reptile into the house, got a pistol, shot...