Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Otto Kafka, student flyer, spun the propeller of his plane without blocking the wheels. As the plane sailed over his head Kafka grabbed the tail, was carried dangling in the air to a height of five feet where he dropped to the ground. After a few gyrations the plane crashed...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten...
...University basketball team which will face Boston University in Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock in the first clash of the season is small in size, but fast and shifty. B. U. will probably have a considerable advantage over the Crimson in height but the Harvard team looks smooth and aggressive with a great deal of speed...
...Ford who is vice president of the Technical Advisory Corporation will undertake the investigation of the subject "What Zoning Has Done to Limit the Height of Bulk Buildings Especially in Commercial and Apartment Districts, and What Further Limits Should Be Placed on Building Height and Form...
...their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio of 8 to 1. From a half mile height it can glide four miles in still...