Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. We first meet youthful Tony walking up a street "well-dressed, in the habit of the time, his silk hat shining, his collar of a somewhat exaggerated height, his cutaway coat tightly buttoned, his trousers fitting close to the leg. He carries his gloves and a neatly furled umbrella." He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning the wisdom or motives of the world of adults...
Ballooning is perhaps the one outdoor sport where brains count for everything. The pilots study meteorological conditions round their particular starting point for months. True the wind is the sole driving, force, but its direction and intensity vary from height to height. The: thing is to keep the craft at that altitude where the wind effects are most: favorable. Suppose a balloon im equilibrium at a certain height. The: sun may come out, heat the hydrogen, contained within the gas, cause it to rise too high. The unskilled pilot: may let out gas in too much of a hurry, drop...
...silk hat shining, a collar of some-what exaggerated height, a cutaway coat tightly buttoned...
Coach Leader's A combination bids strongly for Yale victory today, with its five letter men and its average height of six feet, one inch...
Pole Vault.--Won by Lambert (V); tie for second by Combs (H) and Reidy (H). Height, 11ft...