Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Suez Canal management announced that its gigantic suction dredgers had completed the job of deepening the 100-mi, long ditch through the shifting sand of the Sinai Desert from 33 to 34 ft., to oblige primarily big Australian freighters, incidentally the British Navy. *Wafd means "delegation." The party takes its name from the delegation led by Zaghlul Pasha to Paris in 1919 to voice Egyptian Nationalist aspirations at the Peace Conference...
...pontifical university in the U. S. Far from viewing a Catholic university as a glorified seminary, he instituted nursing courses, a School of Social Work, expanded the Graduate School to admit 800 students, the University to enroll 3,000 men & women. He upped the University's income 60 ft. For these achievements Pope Pius XI made him a titular bishop (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). Catholic University did not surrender Bishop Ryan gladly...
...week. Just in after a bad battle with a monsoon over the Bay of Bengal between Allahabad and Singapore, Pilot Melrose in his slow plane had seen the sleek Lockheed-Altair Ladv Southern Cross of Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith rocket past at 200 m.p.h., only 200 ft. above the waves. At that rate he should have reached Singapore long before Pilot Melrose. But when Melrose finally slid in for a landing, Sir Charles was two hours overdue. On what he asserted was to be his last long flight, the great Australian aviator and Co-Pilot Pethybridge...
...eastward, exposing at or near the edge of the Shelf the basic granite foundation of the North American continent, some 1,000,000,000 years old. Dr. Ewing's twitchy seismograph needles now told him how thick the sedimentary layer was. Near the shore the thickness was 500 ft. But as he moved eastward, the layer, instead of dwindling as he expected, got thicker & thicker. At the brink of the Shelf the sedimentation was two miles deep. Thus it appeared that the Shelf was really not a part of the continental foundation at all, but simply a tilted ridge...
...years the moon will be close enough to send 65O-ft. tides surging over the seas four times a year, penning U. S. inhabitants between its eastern and western mountain ranges. When this cold corpse of a satellite has crept 50% closer, a menacing bulge will be sucked out of its earthward face by terrestrial attraction. It will grow to a giant disk covering one-twentieth of the sky, lighting the night with baleful splendor. The lunar mountains, four miles high, will crack and crumble. Earth will shudder, open tremendous crevasses. The rain of moon fragments, falling as meteorites heated...