Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existence of organic life on Mars has again become a subject of lively speculation through the report of P. M. Ryves, a British astronomer who has been studying the red planet for the past ten years through a powerful telescope from a height of 8,000 feet on Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands. Mars " appears far from a dead world," says Mr. Ryves, but " whether it is inhabited by intelligent beings like ourselves is perhaps the most absorbing question that confronts the human race." Since the pioneer observations of Professors Percival Lowell and W. H. Pickering, of Harvard, about...
...will be sunk with 1,100-pound bombs, the other with 2,000-pound bombs. The mysterious weapon, the new 4,000-pound bomb will not-contrary to first reports-be used at this time. The attackers will have complete control of the air and will bomb from various heights above 6,000 feet. Two of the bombers have been equipped with chemical apparatus to lay down smoke screens, so that the attackers may try the experiment of hiding in the smoke and choosing their own height for bombing. The critics will gather data on the accuracy and effectiveness...
...Taxation closes many stores (when the fear of internal capitalism reaches its height), but they reopen...
...Cold Spring, N. Y., lives Raymond J. Impell - age 13, height 6 feet 3 inches, weight 240 pounds. Last week proud Mrs. Impell claimed for him a world's record for boys...
Died. John Schultz, Civil War veteran, at Pottsville, Pa. President Lincoln, reviewing Union troops at the close of the War, noticed Schultz's unusual height - 6 ft. 6 in. - and called him from the ranks to stand beside him in the reviewing stand...