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When a parachute opens, the hemisphere offers such air resistance to gravity that descent is checked to about 16 ft. per second. This amounts to a force equal to that of jumping from a ten-foot fence, often sufficient to sprain an ankle. Chutes can be partially guided when the jumper wishes to avoid landing in a clump of trees or a pond, by pulling the shroud lines on the side toward which he wants to go. In a high wind, if the jumper does not unharness himself before he lands, as he must do when landing on water...
Damage: $5,000. David Lynn, architect of the Capitol and its official proprietor, found masses of government documents of no historic worth destroyed, a portrait of himself ruined. A falling beam had smashed a ten-foot plaster model of the Capitol...
...Under the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City, Col, officials last week discovered a ten-foot tunnel dug by convicts since last month's deadly riot (TIME, Oct. 14). In the tunnel were found sledges, drills, crowbars, powder. Alarmed, the officials searched the entire prison, found 300 lbs. of daggers, stilettos, blackjacks, clubs, saws, knives made from files ?all the makings of another violent outburst...
...never even been in Europe," he said. "I've never played at all, never had a chance to do anything but work." He was asked about a reported remark to the effect that if he had a son he would keep him out of the market with a ten-foot pole and another observation that most brokers were just "broke." He said that he meant the grain, not the stock market. In the grain market all the cards were against you. It was just a selling market. Railroads, he observed, were coming into their...
Climbing into his little car he touched off a rocket. There was a ten-foot spurt of flame, a burst of yellow smoke, a loud report and the car whizzed away down the track. Within two seconds it was going 100 kilometres per hour (62.1 m. p. h.). Then there came fresh bursts of flame, smoke, and noise as Herr von Opel exploded more rockets. At each explosion the car lunged ahead in a fresh spurt. Its speed mounted to 125 m. p. h. When his rockets were all gone, Herr von Opel coasted to a standstill...