Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...League "B" basketball, Leverett swamped Dudley 43 to 13. Clark Mollenhoff and Brow Craig led the Bunnies in scoring with 14 and 12 baskets respectively. Leverett had too much height for the Commuters...
From the prison records, Ellis gets the condemned man's height and weight, then computes the distance the victim must drop to meet the legal requirement that three cervical vertebrae be fractured or dislocated to snap the spinal cord and bring quick death. Ellis does not see the prisoner until a few minutes before the hanging when he steps into the death cell, quietly says "good morning" and straps the man's arms behind his back...
...Height-ho, Eeverybody...
Cheerful Loser Lipton, who left $4,000,000 to the poor of Glasgow in his will, was no loser at all on his own terms. At a dinner speech delivered during the height of his career, he succinctly summed up his philosophy: "A man may have many friends, but he will find none so steadfast, so constant, so ready to respond to his wants, so capable of pushing him ahead, as a little leather-covered book with the name of a bank on its cover...
...Discus--3, Lewis. 28-pound weight throw--won by Black; 3, Curran. Disance: 53 feeet, 11 1/2 inches. Broad jump--won by Mello. Distance: 20 feet, 6 inches. High jump--2, Mello; Lown tied for third. Pole vault--won by Mello; Lynne and Lown tied for third. Height: 12 feet...