Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...height of popularity, freshmen were elected to Claverly and rents for five room suites ranged up to $800 per annum...
...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...
...ROBERT RICHARDS, who vaulted 15 ft., the second time he has cleared that height in competition...
While the people who make basketball rules were busy worrying about the height of the basket and length of the players, it turned out that the real trouble with the game was the size of the crowd. It would be hard to prove the three corruptibles from City College would have been purer in the intimacy of their own gymnasium than in the smoky atmosphere of Madison Square Garden, but it is reasonably certain that if they had not been so well-known they would never have received the temptation in the first place...
Contrary to what many Christians believe, history is not the mere increase of love among men. "The anti-Christ grows with Christ," and where faith is strongest, temptation is also at its height. The anti-Christ today is Communism, "because it has the pretension of being God." Escaping it, Christian man must work out his own salvation; history will not save him. The course of the Christian is hard and perilous-but it is a true course...