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British Toxicologist C. J. S. Thompson, honorary curator of the historical section of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons and author of The Mystery and Lore of Monsters (Macmillan, 1931) takes the Bible's version of Goliath's height, computes it at "about 9 ft...
Measuring Goliath's height in feet and inches had never occurred to me, so when I read in your March 1 issue that Goliath was 9 ft. 9 in. tall, I immediately desired to know where you obtained this exact information...
After a thorough and exhaustive search of various Bibles, Bible dictionaries, abridged and unabridged dictionaries, the works of Josephus, The Bible Concordance, etc., I found that Goliath could have been anywhere between 6 ft. 6 in. and 11 ft. 4½ in. tall. His brass breastplate weighed between 156 and 312 lb. His iron spear tip weighed about...
...rawboned Mr. Dykstra (first syllable as in dike), who stands 6 ft. 3¾ in. and weighs just 200 lb., was born 54 years ago in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. He graduated from the University of Iowa, studied two-and-a-half years at the University of Chicago but did not take a Ph.D. After teaching political science at Ohio State and the University of Kansas, he became executive secretary of the Cleveland Civic League in 1918. That work appealed to him so much that he spent four years with similar organizations...
...there are huge subterranean faults (rock fractures along which a shearing motion occurs). Subjected, to a continuing strain, the earth gradually bends until the limit of elasticity is reached, then slips suddenly along the fault plane. The quake of 1906 was caused by a horizontal slip of 21 ft. along the San Andreas fault...