Word: feet
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only the team be granted a coach next year, would not some such scheme be worth trying? A thorough boom of cross-country running might set it permanently on its feet, and then we should no longer need to discuss its abolition, feeling sure that we were amply and ably represented in what is, after all, one of the best and oldest forms of sport known. M. S. CROSBY...
...first of the enormous steel roof trusses was swung into place yesterday at the new Boston Arena on St. Botolph street. The width from end to end of the trusses will be 140 feet, and the height from the apex to the surface of the ice will be 75 feet...
Ithaca, N. Y., December 14, 1909.--Legrand D. Simson '11 of North Tonawanda, N. Y., was elected captain of the Cornell football team for 1910 this evening. He has played fullback for one year and was captain of his freshman team. He is 23 years old, 6 feet tall, and weighs 178 pounds...
...cinematographic exhibit entitled "Man on the Wing" will be given in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the newly organized Harvard Aeronautical Society. Over 3000 feet of films, showing flights of well-known aeronauts, will be used in this exhibit, for which tickets at 50 cents each are now on sale at Amee's. All charter members will be admitted free upon showing their membership cards...
...course of the excavations for the subway on Massachusetts avenue, a little to the west of Wadsworth House, an old foundation wall, extending some forty feet, was recently uncovered. Only the lower courses of the wall were to be seen, the upper courses having been dispersed many years ago when the water pipes were laid in the street. Enough remained, however, to show that the smooth or inner face was toward the north, proving it to have been in all probability the collar wall of a building standing on the north side of the street. It may safely be claimed...