Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally as the height of Klanishness, a flaring banner was seen suspended from a window on Massachusetts Avenue announcing the Klan's entry in the mayoralty race, in the following dreadful legend...
...been rediscovered by modern scientists only in the comparatively recent past. It was probably used as an observatory by Egyptian astronomers, who knew how to measure the earth, the distance between earth and sun and the length of an ideal meridian. The perimeter of the pyramid, divided by its height, gives 3.1416, the geometrical π. The number of of days in the year is deducible from the dimensions of an inner chamber. One of the interior galleries is oriented toward the pole star. The pyramidal cubit (635.66 millimeters) is exactly one ten-millionth of the earth's polar radius...
...short-time working day and stop worrying about its effect. The doleful Malthus will perhaps snare the country in the toils of his population low in a few generations. But meanwhile people would like the chance of creating a Golden Age which might rival the Renaissance in height and breadth of intellectual life...
With the friction between Governor-General Wood and the Philippine Asembly at its height, great interest will attach to the announcement that Pedro Guavara of Manila, Philippine Islands, will probably speak at the Union Friday night, explaining the situation in the Islands and emphasizing the need of Philippine independence. Mr. Guavara arrived in this country late in August and is acting in Washington as one of the two official representatives to the United States of the party now in power in the Philippine Congress. He is coming to Boston to confer with Attorney Morfield Storey '66, who vigorously denounced...
...arms. You have seen none so short in proportion to height since Lillian Russell died." (A. Brisbane...