Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slowly the President of the University of Michigan came forward. Like the man he came to nominate, he had reddish hair. Like him, he was slender. Unlike him, he stood well over six feet in height. He began...
Forty years later the same battle is renewed. Josephine's life has been ruined, although she is the wealthy widow of a man who had become a Baron and died at the height of his glory. Ulrika's life has simply been lived?she has had a good time, but it is over, and she has retired to her country house to hoard, with what is apparently a congenial avariciousness among Viennese, the fortune she has amassed. And then the author introduces the extraordinarily beautiful, self-possessed and unspotted grandchild of Josephine. The two women fight for her and Josephine...
According to dispatches from Tokio, one Dr. Saike, of the Japanese Institute of, Nutrition, is about to startle the world with a discovery which will revolutionize human existence. Briefly, he has concocted a peculiar fish powder which he claims will add any number of inches to one's height...
...North, the South, the East and the West unite in him. Deep calls to deep. Height calls to height...
...colloquial word 'jazz' is shrouded in mystery. The story of its beginning, that is most frequently told and most generally believed among musicians, has to do with a corruption of the name 'Charles.' In Vicksburg, Miss., during the period when ragtime was at the height of its popularity and 'blues' were gaining favor, there was a colored drummer of rather unique ability named 'Chas. Washington.' As is a very common custom in certain parts of the South, he was called 'Chaz.' 'Chaz' could not read music...