Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Height should be the deciding factor when the basketball team opens its season against M.I.T. at 8:30 p.m. tonight at the Blockhouse. Coach Norm Shepard will start two men--Captain Norm Shepard will start two men--Captain Ed Smith and Dick Lionetto--over six foot five, while the tallest first-string man on the Tech squad is Hank Hohorst at six four. The rest of the visiting squad is correspondingly small--the captain, Leon Hong, is five foot five...
...objectionable to Radcliffe to have men running through the women's dormitories as they did in the height of Sunday's "festivities...
Three-Arched Abomination. Before the year was out, the elusive monster of Loch Ness had been sighted again & again. In one four-week stretch at the height of the tourist season, it was seen 20 times. Its pictures even appeared somewhat foggily in the Illustrated London News...
Delegates rushed about in a tizzy trying to get transportation to Poland. Meanwhile, Warsaw sprouted flags, banners and decorations. While the Sheffield flap was at its height, new prominence came to one of the members of the British conference's organizing committee with the announcement of Sweden's Nobel Prize awards...
...falcon . . . dashes away as quickly as its hood is removed and the hawker releases the bird from his wrist. It promptly mounts to a height of perhaps half a mile, and "waits on" in circling flight above its owner until prey is flushed, whereupon the falcon dives to the attack in its incredibly swift stoop. It is not unusual for a peregrine 2,000 feet in the sky to get down and kill its quarry pigeon before the prey has traveled 100 yards. A breath-taking sight...