Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy was favored to repeat its victory of last year, but oarsmen from Washington (average height 6 ft. 3 in.) are not to be denied too long...
...cope with the German invasion, the famed Union Sacree was formed with the Rooseveltian M. Rene Viviani as Premier (Aug. 26, 1914). It was this government which removed to Bordeaux (Sept. 2, 1914) when the German advance was at its height. The second Wartime Union Sacree was formed with M. Briand as Premier...
...models-a two-door coach and two-seat coupé (both $735 f.o.b. factory) ; a touring car ($645). They have a four-cylinder, small-bore, poppet-valve engine of 15 horsepower on a 4% in. stroke. Their wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...
...arrived from the West Coast a week before to perfect their technic and between spells of rowing their large shapes had been seen posing about the town in sweaters adorned with little oars-a crew of giants. Two of them were six feet five inches high; their average height was six feet three; even the coxswain was a big man. This display of brawn had caused some apprehension in the minds of Princeton undergraduates and now as the two shells slipped over a panel of golden water, glazed with sunset, it was apparent that this apprehension was not unfounded...
...June World's Work remarks--the passing of what William Allen White terms "American Populism" with the death of Bryan. Roosevelt, Wilson, and La Follette. Before 1890, the Populist Party, which at its height commanded but 22 electoral votes, demanded curbing of the trusts, strict regulation of railroads, banking reform, popular election of Senators, an income tax, and cheap money. At the hour of first demand, politicians of the major parties would have none of these issues. By 1917 all except the last had found expression in law. They permeated the political life of two decades and attached themselves...