Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reports from Russia by Walter Lippmann and Adlai Stevenson delineate the immense extent of Communist appeal to the world's underdeveloped areas. To answer the Soviet challenge with half-way measures, such as the President has cited, or with threats on the order of Secretary Dulles' pronunciamento seems the height of folly...
...keep within the maximum height allowed by Cambridge zoning regulations, the architects have sunk the buildings into a court which is four feet below ground level. President Pusey commended Shepley, Bullfinch for having "conceived a pleasing design which makes excellent use of the limited space...
...Philomusarian Club declared in its preamble that "whereas Conversation, which is the Basis of Friendship The fundamental Principle of Society ... Is now at A Very Low Ebb ... Vice and Folly Are In Their Zenith.... And whereas Vice is Now become Alamode and Rant Riot and Excess is Accounted The Height of Good Breeding and Learning--In Order Therefore to Stem That Monstrous Tide of Impiety and Ignorance," the Philomusarian Club is formed. Seven of the ten organizers became ministers...
Rossini was at the height of his powers when he wrote Ory. Frankly, I am not an ardent admirer of Rossini; and this work shows many of his weaknesses, such as poverty-stricken harmony and overly square phraseology. The libretto is scarcely more than adequate--Rossini himself used to say he needed nothing better than a laundry list...
Very few people around Cambridge are talking about basketball yet, but down at the I.A.B. a determined squad and an equally determined coach are working to produce a winning combination. They face one serious problem: a lack of height...