Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woman, Boat. Above six feet in height, full of face and broad of figure: Oscar Frederick William Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Skane and Crown Prince of Sweden. Small, dark, sharp of feature: Louise, Crown Princess of Sweden, daughter of Prince Louis Battenberg, second cousin of the Prince of Wales, great-granddaughter of the great and plump Victoria. Under their feet: the motor-ship Gripsholm making its way into New York Harbor...
...their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton of Manhattan and Dr. William B. Riley of Minneapolis. Prolonged applause hailed every fundamentalist speaker. "Praise the Lord," shouted the delegates. The modernists, themselves true and loyal brethren, sat silent. Clearly the fundamentalists had a majority. On the third day excitement reached its height. Yet when the count was taken, it was found that the fundamentalists had more cheers than votes. They were beaten, 2,020 to 1,084. Mr. Rockefeller's church could stay in the faith...
Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...
Engaged. Miss Kaatje Vandyk, height 7 ft. 11 in., to Jan van Albert, height 7 ft. 11 1/2 in.; at Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. She weighs...
This small Walt awes her somewhat. He is affectionate, demonstrative, but utterly imperturbable, even before his father's taciturn anger or tenderness. When, by 16, he has towered up to his father's height and beam, his mother has accepted as inscrutable in him a poise that seems a latent power, like a wind not yet blowing...