Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What happened when the Queen Mary came abreast of her berth at West 50th Street was no blow to the prestige of the port, but it was a mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers...
Mackinney and Mason took three firsts apiece, the former winning the two hurdles and the broad jump, while Mason won the shot put with a heave of 48 ft. 5 1/2 in., and took first honors in the javelin and discus. Mackinney's high hurdle triumph was somewhat of a hollow victory, inasmuch as he was the sole entry...
...revealed a fairly high degree of competence in the amateur, only minor improvements by the professional. Mr. Roosevelt had placed his bedroom windows badly, had left little wall space for beds. Mr. Toombs corrected this, slightly increased the size and improved the shape of these two rooms (to 13 ft. by 14 ft. and 13 ft. by 19 ft). He took the icebox out of a remote kitchen corner, cut down a huge servant's bathroom to provide a servant's closet, enlarged the living room a trifle (to 20 ft. by 36 ft). Neither amateur nor professional...
...calories. A solar recording station should be high, dry, nearly dustless, nearly hazeless. The Smithsonian Institution has two solar outposts at Table Mountain in California and Mt. Montezuma in Chile. Last week the Smithsonian announced that it would start a new solar observatory atop Burro Mountain, an 8,000-ft. peak in southwestern New Mexico, with Observer Alfred F. Moore in charge. The annual rainfall of ten inches is almost all concentrated in July, August and September, leaving nine months of superb observation weather...
Some $75,000 of Baron Austin's money will go for modernizing the lecture halls. A big new laboratory for research on the atom-with library, conference room and tea room-will eat up $500,000. Another $50,000 went into a 36-ft. high-voltage atom-smasher. This hurls atomic bullets at controlled energies up to 2,000,000 electron-volts. Still another $30,000 was laid out for a cyclotron-an atom-smashing machine of the type invented by the University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, which spirals atomic bullets up to huge speeds...