Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Climbing slowly to the dizzy height of the upper span while the breathless crowd watched in an agony of suspense, the man poised for a fleeting second and then plunged into a mass of correspondence which had accumulated during his absence. An immediate blood transfusion was decided...
...beach near Carrara, Italy, not far from where his body was washed ashore in July, 1822, a colossal monument will be erected to the poet Shelley. It is to be a figure of Prometheus, exceeding 180 feet in height, greater in size than the statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, represented as in Shel- ley's poem* unbound, bearing fire to man. The idea is further expanded by making the shaft, against which the figure stands, into a lighthouse which will throw its signal light far over the Tyrrhenian sea, whose treacherous waters were the poet...
...subject that only brings forth admiration from friends and enemies. The French call him sympathigue, which says much for his character. In appearance he resembles a jovial and prosperous farmer; his features are hardly handsome, for, like his Premier, he is inclined to corpulency and is below medium height. But his iron-grey hair, his penetrating eyes and his smiling countenance go far to give him I'air distingué. Of him his intimates say: "He is the President of the French Republic, but he is also the most simple and modest of its citizens...
...round head is surmounted by a shock of bushy black hair; his eyes, like those of all born revolutionaries, are coal black, luminous, revealing intensity and some times an appealing tenderness, but capable of flashing fire-"ashes and sparks my words among mankind." In stature he is of medium height, with a thick-set figure, beefy as a bull...
...competition for model airplanes conducted by the French Air Ministry, a 16-year-old boy, Gaston Beaulieux, did well. His wonderful model, with a few strands of twisted rubber driving a tiny propeller, was released from a captive balloon at a height of over 600 feet, went up in regular circles to a height of 1,500 feet and disappeared from view in the direction of Versailles. A search was conducted for the tiny airplane...