Word: feets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week was not just a bilateral frip-frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week was out, the Devil's legions...
...Never dive feet foremost. "The rush of water into the nasal cavities may readily cause acute infections of the sinuses, the middle ear and the mastoid in swimmers of all ages...
...soon as war began, all precious radium supplies were sunk in shafts 60 feet deep, widely scattered throughout the country...
Since 1878 the Salvation Army has been practicing street-corner soul-saving. On the theory of its founder, hot-eyed, white-bearded General William Booth, that you cannot save a man's soul when his feet are cold and his stomach empty, it adds soup and soap to the salvation. Thanks also to Founder Booth, the Army's General long occupied the most autocratic throne of charity on earth, armed with a set of rules which gave him dictatorial powers, even to naming his successor. Son Bramwell was so named when General William Booth died...
...Shreveport, La., while Winifred Parker, 18, was taking instruction in artificial respiration, her small niece lost her balance in shallows of a pool 25 feet away, drowned...