Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeing TIME'S photo, I took out a ruler and measured the heights of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Curtis [Jan. 31], finding that she is only 38% taller than he. Hence if he is "3½ ft.," she must be a mere 4 ft. 10 in.-not "6 ft...
With one projected piece of sculpture Mr. Connick had no quarrel: the monumental, distinguished design for a new goddess, Pacifica (see cut), which San Francisco's veteran Ralph Stackpole modeled to be the exposition's 70 ft. cynosure. But Mr. Connick remarked of Abundance, a nude male figure by David Slivka, that it looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop; of Occident & Orient, two female nudes by Jacques Schnier, that they would be barred from burlesque; of South American Woman Grinding Corn by Cecilia Graham, that it should be called Woman Bet-Loser Shoving...
...University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader reaches the ground, the main stroke, more powerful than the leader, shoots upward to the cloud along the path created...
...pickaback plane, or "Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft," consists of two seaplanes-a small, swift, long-range ship securely locked on the back of a big short-range "mother" flying boat. The top plane, named Mercury, has a 73-ft. wing span, weighs 20,000 lb. loaded, is powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span...
...coupled together like giant dragon flies, they taxied over the Medway, off Rochester, Kent, finally flew locked together above Short Bros, big plant. One afternoon last week they took off again, Ace Test Pilots John Parker and Harold Piper at the controls of Maia and Mercury, respectively. At 700 ft., flying 140 m.p.h. with conditions perfect, Chief Pilot Parker telephoned up to Pilot Piper: "Is everything all right?" Then: "One, two, three, go." Thousands of Sunday strollers cheered as the two seaplanes separated, took different courses. Said Pilot Parker: "There was no point in mucking about any longer. . . . My only...