Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilson, six feet, three inches and 210 pounds, showed great promise last fall as a tackle and it was generally considered he would be an extremely able guard or tackle this fall, because of his height and strength. However, he was unable to report this season...
...depth at every position except fullback, but Dave Rogers and Grif Buttrick are showing promise there. They are being pushed by an ox-Taft football player, John Rosenthal, who has never played soccer before. Two goalies will switch at backing up the west defense. George Anderson has both the height and a long throw; Henry Briggs can kick the ball hard and does well directing defensive Strategy...
Clayton is still the fine passer and play-caller he was last year, but he no longer has Tom Rowe and Dave Beeman to grab his passed and go. He throws mostly to John McDonald, who is of more than average height (6-4) and thus can usually grab a pass; but neither he nor the other end, Vince Marriott, could advance very far after they had caught the ball, which probably made Clayton look less spectacular by comparison with his performances last year...
Among the 137 bills that cluttered the President's desk at the height of the congressional adjournment crush last week was H.R. 9087 for the relief of one H. Dale Madison. It was one of the innumerable private relief bills which Congressmen grind out for their constituents like links from a sausage machine...
...Hasselborg instinctively shifted his eyes upward toward the top of this blank wall. His mouth sagged open in his beard and his eyes went glassy at what he saw. There was a splotch of red on top of the thing . . . The bloodshot eyes . . . glared down at him from a height twice his own . . . Yes, it was the gigantic bear-the one he had killed but a moment ago. He had forgotten his own precepts about approaching bears until they were dead. And his rifle stood against a bush two steps behind, ineffective and unreachable...