Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dickens play at the Majestic Theatre, will sit stop the famous old 'Commodore Coach" surveying the favorite city of the man who created them and paying their sincere respects to the haunts and friendships he chose from the multitudes proffered him on his two American visits at the height of unprecedented popularity...
...Navy were larger than those of any other navy in the world. Admiral Hughes well upholds the average, being able to look down upon all men who are only six feet in height. Blue-eyed, ruddy-faced, bushy-mustached, he looks the sea-dog's part, is brave and modest, has been termed a "huge, friendly fire-eater." As Commander of the U. S. S. New York he received the Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" with the British Grand Fleet in the North Seas. In 1918 hs became Rear Admiral; in 1925 he was made Commander...
...Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished...
...their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane roared along the ground at Langley Field, near Hampton, Va. Gradually, almost painfully, it rose to a height of some 50 feet. A row of trees, planted years ago by an industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes...
...inhabitants, was completely cut off from the outside world except by telegraph and aeroplane. Similar conditions now exist in most of the towns and cities along the Mississippi. When the levee broke near Greenville, Mississippi, which is a prosperous city of 10,000 people, the water rose to a height of fifteen feet. Those with means were able to retreat to other places but there were many negro families who were obliged to take refuge on the tops of the levees, where they are now living without proper shelter, sanitation, drinking water, and other necessities of life. The same situation...