Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon test a new bomber built by G. Elias &; Bros. of Buffalo. Equipped with two 700-horse-power motors, the new plane will carry a deadly destructive load of 6,900 pounds of bombs-enough to wreck a city. Yet with this enormous load the plane will reach a height of 13,500 feet, and at lower altitudes be able to fly with one of its motors completely out of commission. With a wing area of 1,500 square feet, a span of nearly 100 feet, it will be second in size only to the great Barling Bomber...
What will be needed for this will be something more solid than can be built of "planks", something concrete and lasting. And what is needed now as preparation is a constructive plan, a complete scaffold, based on the foundations of actuality and rising strongly to the requisite height, lofty though that must...
Davidson has been closely connected with baseball for several years as a player, manager, coach, and organizer. He played at Volkman School and Brown University, and his professional experience includes service with the Philadelphia and Washington American League clubs. He gave up organized baseball while at the height of his career to enter business. He organized the twilight league in Greater Boston, and has been its president for two years...
...contracts of the literary artist with life are conspicuously Alpine. He looks upon the mortal world from a great height, but tolerantly. His vision is embracing, a little supercilious, but not antagonistic. At times, permitting himself a specialization of curiosity, he draws his trusty telescope and applies its concentrated vision to a limited section of the horizon. An Arnold Bennett may contrive to narrow the scope of his mundane investigation to the intensive inspection of one unsavory Soho basement. Joseph Conrad, his seaman's vision scorning the intervention of the spyglass, embraces the entire Mediterranean in a searching survey. Frank...
...Csongrad, Hungary, Jewish women gave a charity ball. Unbeknownst to them, several members of the "Awakening Hungarians," a Budapest organization with pronounced views on Hungarian independence, entered the hall. At the height of the festivities, an "Awakening Hungarian" rolled a bomb across the dance floor. One Jewish woman was killed, 50 were injured...