Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This discursive method of arriving at editorial policy produces editorials that are the height of discursiveness. On many issues, Cowles editorials give sober consideration to a variety of viewpoints-and often end up advocating none. Cracks one rival Iowa editor: "They're like a butterfly in heat." Mike Cowles thinks that other papers are doing the fluttering: on foreign policy, he says, "most papers in this country have become eunuchs...
...sloughing Lord Jeff defense bottled him up on offense, robbing the Crimson of its height advantage, yet when the outside shooters increase their potency he will be able to maneuver more freely underneath the basket, setting himself up for more scoring plays...
While exempting University buildings from restrictions on use, the new code would still require institutions to comply with regulations on height, area, and provision of off-street parking facilities...
Traces from Space. A longer-range project is a monster balloon 400 ft. high that will rise some time next summer from the deck of an aircraft carrier and soar to a height of 23 miles (120,000 ft.). Below it will dangle an aluminum cylinder containing 600 specially designed photographic plates in a stack 2 ft. high and 21 in. wide. The balloon is expected to stay up for 48 hours. When it descends, a swarm of airplanes and ships will track it and rescue the cylinder...
...Uncle (Continental). Jacques Tati is a French comedian whose big feet, small head, great height and bolted rigidity invest him, as he jerks and jolts and fidgets through his films, with the marvelously absurd demeanor of an Eiffel Tower out for a Sunday stroll. But from his solitary eminence, Moviemaker Tati (Jour de Fête, Mr. Hulot's Holiday) takes a solemn view of the comic art and the contemporary scene. "Look what is happening to us," he glooms. "This specialization. Depersonalization is taking all the human meaning out of our daily life. A man used...