Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heat wave, which was felt over the entire continent of Europe, reached a severe temperature in London. The exact height of the mercury is not stated, but many people have died from prostration and sunstroke...
...result of a two-day rainfall the rivers La Plata and Riachuelo were flooded to an unusual height. The river front districts of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, were flooded with 3 to 4 feet of water, forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes. Firemen and police in boats helped to remove families from the flooded area to higher ground. Palermo Park, a quarter of a mile inland, was entirely submerged. Many suburban car lines were held...
...introduced into the U. S. about that time and flourished for more than 60 years, but its influence is now waning with the more recent vogue of drugless healing and the absorption by regular medicine of some of the homeopaths' emphasis on the art of prescription. At its height there were about 15,000 homeopaths in America, and ten schools, but these are now reduced to two-the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia and the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, of which Senator Royal S. Copeland was formerly dean. The homeopathic schools teach...
...Radiolo, one-time railway accountant, " best known man in France," has risen to fame because he has a voice more resonant than that of either Caruso or Jean de Reszke at the height of their careers. He gets $63 a week-quite a large salary for Paris. His job is to amuse radio fans by talking to them through the transmitter of a wireless broadcasting apparatus. His mellifluent voice, heard by women listening in on the 50,000 receiving sets in France, has brought Radiolo many pressing matrimonial proposals. Recently he attended a theatre. The audience rose en masse...
...Barling Bomber is being assembled by the Army Air Service at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. It has a wing spread of 120 feet, a height of 28 feet, measures 65 feet from nose to tail. Fully loaded, the bomber weighs 20 tons, is propelled by six Liberty motors with a total of 2,400 horsepower, dwarfs every airplane built up to this day. To keep the dimensions within reasonable limits, three wings are used to give the enormous carrying capacity required. The plane represents an investment of half-a-million dollars, and since the first flight of a machine...