Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton will have a definite height advantage, with Cooper at 6 feet, 8 inches, Sisler at 6 feet, 4 inches, and Tritachler at 6 feet, 3 inches. Both DeVoe and Zuraleff are over 6 feet. The last time the two teams met, Cooper and Sisler completely controlled both backboards. Except for Zuravleff, a sophomore, this is the same team that Princeton had last year, when it split two games with the Crimson...
...cadets were ordered to wear side arms to chapel, Wood forgetfully marched in with a rifle. Another time, he showed up for guard duty with his shirttail hanging out, and was saved by a friend who threw a raincoat around him. Eventually he put on enough muscle and height so that he was twice selected to represent his class in bare-knuckle bouts with plebes. According to the code of the Point, the plebes could escape hazing if they won. Wood licked both his plebes. He graduated 13th in a class of 54, and was shipped off to the Philippines...
...sheer willpower" that he had felt as a struggling medical student. Hatter's Castle was a labor of love and spiritual rejuvenation-and it hit the bestseller lists like a bomb. In no time, Author Cronin found himself richer and more fashionable than he had been at the height of his asthenic heyday. And the more he wrote, the more the money poured in, filling his proud soul with joy, his humble soul with horror...
...others who entered the bureaucratic lists against Ickes were as lucky. At the height of World War II, Ickes held down 16 major jobs, e.g., Solid Fuels Administrator, Coordinator of Fisheries, Petroleum Administrator. During his regime, Interior's budget expanded 347%, its payroll 160%. Once when the Senate voted to put a housing program under a separate agency, Ickes lashed individual Senators until (with an eye on public-works dispensations) they ignominiously reversed themselves the next day. In 1938 he stood off the State Department, the War Department, and even the President, in refusing to sell helium...
...Duchess of Cleveland, another of the King's mistresses, put on airs with her baseborn rival, Nell gave her a friendly whop on the shoulder, and remarked philosophically that "persons of one trade loved not one another." And one day, when popular hostility to Rome was at its height, Nelly's coach was mobbed by Whigs, who thought it carried the King's Catholic mistress, the Duchess of Portsmouth. Never at a loss, Nell stuck her head out of the window and bellowed: "Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore...