Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...height of the water shortage last year, unbathed and stubble-bearded New Yorkers were exhorted to tighten up their faucets, use soda water on their teeth, and drink their whisky neat. But this year New York would apparently have plenty of water to tide it over the hot months. Last week the upstate reservoirs were filled to the top and brimming over...
Harvard has a new tree, sans root, fruit or leaf. Overnight it sprang to its full height of 27 feet in the new graduate-center quadrangle. Walter Gropius, famed professor in Harvard's department of architecture, designed the center and commissioned the tree from Richard Lippold, a Manhattan sculptor. Constructed of steel rods, it is intended to represent nothing less than "the world...
...stories, give readers their first new chance in more than a decade to take a full evening of that old Blackwood magic. In general, it still works. In fact, the Tales may win for his old age (he is now 81) a literary reputation he never enjoyed at the height of his fame. They show him to be one of the most original writers in the line that descends from Edgar Poe to the authors of Mandrake the Magician, and in which he has few peers (some of them: M. R. James, Henry James, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu...
Vital Statistics. Born: April 19, 1883, at Sāo Borja, Rio Grande do Sul. Height: 5 ft. 2 in. (making him the hemisphere's shortest chief executive). Married (in 1911). Children: two sons, two daughters. Religion: Catholic, who rarely goes to Mass...
...earns it in readership. During her successful campaign to drive Conductor Désiré Defauw from command of Chicago's Symphony Orchestra, thousands of Trib readers who had never read a music story read Cassidy to learn how she would scratch Defauw next. At the height of the battle, the Trib received 200 complaining letters in one week from Defauw supporters, and Miss Cassidy offered to resign. Cried Bertie McCormick, "Two hundred letters to the music department? You keep right on writing...