Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the first census was taken in 1790 (there were 3,929,214 people in the country not counting Indians), the U.S. had reacted to the process as enthusiastically as a growing boy getting his height chalked up on the kitchen wall. Over the years a few census takers had been pinked by squirrel guns or heaved down long flights of stairs, but the percentage of objectors was unbelievably small-in 1940 the Government did not find it necessary to prosecute one census evader. As the 1950 census taking began last week, the country smirked as happily and self...
...singers had been grouped in front of the orchestra. Last week he mounted them on a platform stage behind the orchestra so they would have room to move around in their parts and thus, he hoped, gain greater expressiveness. The stage had to be just the right height, too. After one rehearsal, son Walter Toscanini told Producer Don Gillis: "Father wants the stage maybe six inches higher." Gillis began an impatient reply, finished it with a smile: "Tell father he can-have what he wants, as usual...
Lombard, at 6 feet 6 inches, is one of the tallest men in the league. His height gives him a tremendous advantage under the baskets; he haunted the keyhole against Berkeley's Mitres and all but stole the game from the Elis...
Mystical Virtues. Individually, says Standen, scientists are pleasant and even modest fellows. But their "collective ego" is something else again. They are so infatuated with their own scientific minds, that "they seem to think they are entitled to pour scorn on other subjects from a very great height." Standen does not deny that their practical results are admirable ("Better things for better living . . .," etc.), but unfortunately "it is not the results of science that they advertise most; it is always the 'scientific method' or the 'scientific attitude,' or a variety of other hidden, mystical virtues...
...Leverett offense in big Dave Belcher. The Bunnies use an attack designed to make the most of Belcher's height...