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  • From the ground, to the flag pole's top, the monument stands at 78 feet.

    Repairs considered for Iwo Jima memorial 2011

  • Although focused on the flag's beauty, Henry imagined the oohs and aahs as he slid his hands slowly down the shaft until he was just holding the fine cedar at the pole's bottom.

    The Grand Unfurl 2010

  • The poles, twice the height of the walls, are plugged into rotator sockets, making them as flexible as a blade of grass and movable in the wind; the bungee cords connect them so that one pole's motion ripples through them all and swinging a hammock can get them dancing.

    A Serious Couple's Fun Project for This Year's PS1 Beach Party Julie Iovine 2010

  • The main modification I'd make for this is adding a length of stocking / nylon instead of having a closed bottom, that way I wouldn't have to swing the pole's tip over to the basket, I'd just position the bottom of it over the basket and let the end of the nylon / stocking go.

    Make A Fruit Picker To Snag Out Of Reach Fruit | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Are you sure that pole's not part of it's anatomy.

    KPC Quiz: what is this?? 2008

  • Allowing for finials Do not forget to allow for finial attachments at each end when calculating a pole's length.

    Window Dressing (Tips!) 2007

  • "But the pole's not touching anything," Goody said, surprised.

    Pet Peeve Anthony, Piers 2005

  • Rickey Henderson hit an RBI single off Denny Neagle in the fifth, Alex Rodriguez homered off the left-field foul pole's screen an inning later and the Mariners improved to 4-0 in the postseason.

    Garcia pitches M's to Game 1 win 2000

  • A rainbow of colored shirts spilled across the flight deck a telephone pole's length below.

    Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991

  • Chess had one hand firmly grasped in the dwarf's fingers; the other held the pole's loop.

    The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990

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