Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With their radio contact the two staffs can correlate all findings and make accurate predictions for the entire White Mountain area. Blue Hill's height makes it sometimes more reliable--at least it can see farther--than the lower nearby U.S. station...
...height also makes the station harder for staffers to reach. In winter snowshoes and skis are usually necessary for the steep, uphill trail. State and Metropolitan District policemen, who have their radio stations next door also have this problem. During the winter of 1947-8 no one could drive up for three weeks...
Ketcham was sick in Peter Bent Brahman Hospital and needed 16 transfusions during the height of his illness. Unable to meet the costs, he asked the Law School for aid. The Dean's Office says the Dormitory Council responded by rounding up volunteers to replace the blood in the Boston blood bank that had been pumped into Ketcham...
Pushkin's tale deals with a young Russian officer who is looking for the secret of success at cards. The time is the early 19th century, at the height of the great Russian faro craze. The officer, played by Anton Walbrook in this British adaptation, is a very intense young man who believes in "taking life by the throat" to get what he wants. In the process of taking life by the throat, the officer delves into black magic, frightens a mysterious old countess to death, and eventually goes...
...violation of academic freedom. To 98 per cent of the faculty a statement disavowing membership in the Communist Party is like a statement against sin, and 100 per cent have cheerfully taken an oath to support the democratic Constitutions of both the nation and state. It is the height of absurdity to compare [as some of the objectors have done] an oath forswearing membership in a conspiratorial antidemocratic organization with an oath supporting the dictatorship of Hitler or Mussolini . . . Some hysteria-mongers to the contrary notwithstanding, this reviewer knows from personal experience that the faculty of the University of California...