Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Science that he thought he had the answer. After testing 583 Oxford students, he had found some striking differences between athletes and nonathletes, and between athletes in different events, had reduced his findings to a mathematical formula. The formula: using the metric system, divide a man's height by the cube root of his weight; multiply the result by the diameter of his heart (measured by X ray), and multiply again by his leg length. Middle and long-distance runners ought to score over 15,500; sprinters ought to score less. The highest man scored 18,869. "I predict...
...Association, which is not a union, has been asking the city to take a larger share of the pension load. It was pushing a bill which would save many patrolmen $220 to $290 a year. New York's Board of Estimate has been stalling. Last week, at the height of the Quill furor, the board dusted off the bill and recommended its adoption...
While his classmates flew long, bitterly cold patrols at the front that winter, young Stalin sortied into Moscow. The city's finest tailors and bootmakers were called in to pad out his spindly frame, add a bit to his 5 ft. 3 in. height. Vasily shot up to captain, major, lieutenant colonel, then colonel. He cut quite a figure in actresses' dressing rooms...
...model, Hearst grew in wealth, if not in stature. The era of the Winsor McCay cartoons (against the yellow peril, the red peril, the dope peril, etc.) and the thundering Brisbanalities of the column Today, was also the era when Hearst's insatiable acquisitiveness reached its height. He added dozens of papers to his string, turned a score of U.S. cities into Hearst towns...
Conceding that there had been much preliminary discussion over the height of the partitions, he noted that the verdict had been that a deeper circular tray would be "more difficult to eat from...