Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright flashing object which startled several College star-gazers as it sped across the sky early last night was a huge inflatable satellite launched over the Atlantic to a height of 250 miles...
Earlier, the Armenian Church had won from the Cambridge Appeals Board a special zoning variance which helped it to win its case. Because the ritual of the Church involves two additional side altars to represent the Holy Trinity, the variance permitted the extra height...
...tour by Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne-TIME, April 27*) provides Actress Bergner with the kind of virtuoso acting opportunities she needs. With top-notch support from German Actor Otto Hasse as Shaw, Bergner limns the famous affair-by-letter, beginning in 1912, when Actress Campbell, at the height of her fame and beauty, was writing to her "Joey the Clown" about appearing in his Pygmalion, through the declining days in Hollywood (where Stella was like "some sinking frigate firing broadside after broadside at anyone who tried to help her"), to the year before Stella's bitter, poverty-stricken...
...Shakers at their height were sternly anti-esthetic, considering beauty a snare. Yet their interest to the world is emphatically esthetic. The Shaker Museum at Old Chatham, N.Y., founded just nine years ago in recognition of the Shakers' unique contribution to American culture, already gets close to 9,000 visitors a season, sends them away charmed by the clean, consecrated ingenuity of Shaker crafts. Some 8,000 objects, crammed into the museum's six sizable buildings, show that despite themselves the Shakers created and lived in beauty...
...chairman of Red China's National People's Congress, onetime top-ranking soldier of Chiang Kai-shek who led a bloody purge against the Communists in 1927, served as Chiang's chief of staff (1928), often quarreled with the Generalissimo, decisively in 1947 when at the height of the military crisis he tried to form a third party of liberals and warlords to mediate between the Nationalists and the Communists; of cancer and a cerebral thrombosis; in Peking...