Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Mrs. Bridges fell out the window, my aunt was unaware of the identity of her neighbors, although their kitchen windows were but 4 or 5 ft. apart. The Bridges' daughter used to enjoy taking my aunt's dog, Difo, for walks, but my aunt didn't know the girl's last name. Once in her presence she raked that terrible Harry Bridges over the coals but the child did not even peep...
...Gretna will rise three round units connected by an underground passage, each bounded by a 33 to 39 ft. reinforced concrete wall. One will house prison work shops, and probably a factory where inmates will make soap for 54 other State institutions. Another will contain recreation facilities and latrines. Centre circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor...
...locomotives were necessary to accommodate the crowd. Setting gaily forth, the train presently reached tiny Chatsworth. Ill., took on six more passengers, chugged out of the station at 11:35 p. m. Some two miles outside the town it approached a small wooden culvert over a 10-ft. ditch. As the train rounded a knoll just before the bridge, Engineer David Southerland in the first engine suddenly screamed in horror to Fireman Rodgers: "My God! The bridge is burned! Jump for your life...
...Mathematically, an unbroken procession of cars exactly 33 ft. apart and moving at a constant speed of exactly 23.5 m.p.h. would pass a given point at the rate of 3,760 per hour...
...needs and interviewing some 300 applicants, New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. last week started training classes in Boston for a handful of young women to act as dining car hostesses on its crack runs, mostly between Boston and Manhattan. Candidates are required to be unmarried, 5 ft. 7 in. to 5 ft. 10 in. tall, aged 24 to 35, 115 to 135 lb. in weight. College graduates are strongly preferred. They must pass a "personality test"-i.e., be reasonably personable as well as amiable. Because Superintendent H. W. Quinlan of the New Haven's dining cars believes...