Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conceding that there had been much discussion over the height of the partitions, he noted that the verdict was that a deeper circular tray would be "more difficult to eat from...
Last week the tide of illegal Mexican "wetbacks" flowed strongest into California's lush, hot Imperial Valley, where the harvest season was at its height. But they were crossing the Rio Grande into Texas, too; by autumn, immigration men estimate, more than a million wetbacks will have surged across the 2,000-mile border between the Pacific and the Gulf, hunting jobs as the Forty-Niners hunted gold...
...week, after missing ten days of spring practice because of flu and a sprained wrist, Pepper Pot Stanky was back in the Giant lineup as lead-off batter. He came to the plate six times. Hunching his stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 165 Ibs.) frame to its shortest possible height, yapping at the pitcher, fidgeting with his cap and uniform, Stanky wriggled his way into four walks ("I don't care how I get on base"), hit a double, stole a base and scored four runs. Not until the ninth inning, after the Giants had salted the game away...
...barring all-out war, Wilson expects arms output to have reached its height and begin tapering off. Then civilian production will rise again. For example, new plants will turn out so much aluminum in 1953 that the military will be able to take 500,000 tons and still leave civilians about as much as they got before Korea. By 1953, a greatly expanded U.S. industrial plant should be able to carry the burden of war & peace production with comparative ease. By then, said Wilson, "we can probably begin to talk about taking off controls...
...decay of pre-Revolutionary France had been as deep as most 19th Century historians said it was, France's problem would not have arisen. The truth was that the Revolution was made against one of the most successful social structures the world ever saw, still near the height of its vigor at the moment it was attacked. Only the most powerful revolutionary drive could have breached that structure, only the massive vigor of the pre-Revolutionary French tradition could have survived that revolutionary thrust...