Word: six-foot
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...Kenya Colony, Digger L. S. Leakey reported finding the skeleton of a six-foot cave man of non-negroid characteristics, surrounded by mesolithic flints...
...gentlemen had rowed out, sweating, into the great crescent river-harbor of New Orleans, La., to the Japanese world cruise ship Santos Mam. There they had found a huge, six-foot, blue-eyed Englishman of 58, who admitted to having been from 1917 to 1922 the most potent jurist in India, the Advocate General of Bengal, a post second in dignity only to the Viceroyship. Sipping their tea, the gentlemen of the press gave eager heed to Sir Thomas Clarke Pilling Gibbons. Lady Gibbons poured...
When Chang, a six-foot bandit chieftain, visited Peking, last winter, cultivated Chinese were shocked to see in his train as concubines some eighty young women seized by his soldiers from the richest fathers and husbands in Shantung province. Conscienceless and avaricious, Chang has farmed tribute out of this densely populated province until even the poorest have yielded all that could be seized...
...British Minister to China, Miles Wedderburn Lampson, a six-foot statesman fluent in Chinese, cabled last week that he was unable to come to any understanding with the new South China Government at Wuchang (TIME, Dec. 13); and set out, disgruntled, for Peking, the capital of North China. The anti-British strikes threatening in South China (but held off by the new Government while the possibility of British recognition was discussed) were expected to begin from day to day last week...
...six-foot shark nosed lazily about, off Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific. It was a bright day. In the pellucid blue beneath him the shark could see scores of rakish fish shapes, deep brown, like his own; silver-edged green, mottled grey, golden bellied; big tuna, amber jacks and yellowtails curving dreamily hither and yon, flashing off now and again for a bite of food. A school of his kind wrangled over a dead porpoise, but the big shark had fed. He lolled contentedly...