Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some time ago Soviet scientists said they sent up dogs to a lesser height. The dogs were released and parachuted to safety, they said...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 6--A rocket similar to the German V2 now in American hands is capable of shooting a man to the 186-mile height reportedly achieved by the Russians, a scientist said tonight...
...Rinehart pointed out that putting a man to a height of 186 miles was much less a problem, in terms of the rocket power needed, than to launch a satellite of a man's weight...
Down for the Count. Kudner ran into trouble with TV, which it started using to plug Buick in 1952. It showed a knack for buying top TV shows at the height of their drawing power-just before they began to wane. Buick's big-league TV advertising suffered from the failures of Milton Berle, Joe E. Brown, Jackie Gleason. Kudner topped off its poor TV performance last August, when a closing Buick commercial was injected into the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson bout just as the referee stopped the fight and before Patterson could be declared winner. After complaints from...
...helpings of Kartoffelklösschen and Sachertorten, and lose a little weight-say, 20 Ibs. Maria agreed, but when she arrived in Hollywood to start shooting, she was as broad as ever. Furthermore, she was dressed like a middle-aged Central European frump. Her frocks were all in the height of Paris fashion-most of them made by Dior-but she had not bothered to take care of one minor detail: none of them had been properly fitted...