"Square foot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was the captured Atom Smasher upon the platform, and those forms grouped in front of the dignitaries were captured Drilgoes, a dozen or so of them. And the concealed priest was droning a chant again. Every other sound was hushed, but from each square foot of the great amphitheatre a pair ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various
... on any square foot of roof, as V{P} as at the base of any vertical ordinate, as 9 in ...
— Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth • J. C. Meem
... a genius, Richardson!" he exclaimed, after he had thoroughly examined them, and Wallace had explained everything. "You have utilized every square foot of space, and that, too, without infringing in any way upon the beauty and proportions. I shall use these plans, and Mac Cumber would do well to come and take ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... England town, not far from the entrance to Long Island Sound, and from a village with several grocery shops and a tavern, it had been converted by a magic touch of Society into the most famous and expensive resort in the world. Estates had been sold there for as much as a dollar a square foot, and it was nothing uncommon to pay ten thousand a month ...
— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair
... globe there are more than ten thousand acres on the surface of the great luminary. Every portion of this illimitable desert of flame is pouring forth torrents of heat. It has indeed been estimated that if the heat which is incessantly flowing through any single square foot of the sun's exterior could be collected and applied beneath the boilers of an Atlantic liner, it would suffice to produce steam enough to sustain in continuous movement those engines of twenty thousand horse-power which enable a ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
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