Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loyal Indiana Subscribers Hatcher and Jewell take TIME'S simile too literally. Even so, rolling Indiana's highest point (1,240 ft., in Randolph County) is 2,265 ft. below Mt. Greylock in the Berkshires...
...preface, customary for such young fisticuffers, of fighting as an amateur. Instead, he took all the professional fights he could find, in the course of which he gradually worked his way up to the top of his class by the time he had acquired his full growth - 6 ft. & 172 Ib. James J. Braddock, now heavyweight champion of the world, beat him once, lost to him once, considers him the best man he ever fought. Jack Dempsey, who refereed one of his bouts two years ago, called him the best young fighter in the U. S. That was before Dempsey...
...advertisement of a book about "escaped nuns": "Convent horror . . . story of Barbara Ubrick, who for 21 years was locked in a stone dungeon 8 ft. long and 6 ft. wide because she refused to surrender her virtue to a Romish priest...
Beside the company's railroad spur stood a mammoth flat-topped trailer. Flat on the trailer lay a circular crate, nearly 18 ft. across, made of reinforced sheet steel. Inside, protected by close-packed felt and rubber, was the biggest and costliest piece of glass in the world - the 200-in. telescope mirror destined for California Institute of Technology, 3,000 miles away. For nearly a year, since it was formed of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, the great disk had cooled slowly in its annealing oven. In the testing plant it had been pronounced...
This week the mirror starts its journey west on a special train carrying a freight-car with equipment for unloading, and a caboose. The train will travel no faster than 30 m.p.h. Since it was impossible to provide a lateral clearance of 18 ft., the mirror had to be shipped standing upright. This raised the problem of overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington...