Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that at each gathering he would be the principal party-a seasoned world leader clothed in enormous and rising prestige, the President of a country at the height of its powers and on its way toward greater strength...
...doubt. Born in Bern, son of a professor of orthodox medicine, Niehans studied for the Protestant ministry before turning to medicine. He practiced conventional surgery and endocrinology until the late 19205. Then he got interested in transplanting organs from animals to humans. (By no coincidence, this was at the height of the late Serge Voronoff's vogue as a transplanter of monkey testicles.) In 1931 Dr. Niehans had a woman patient whom he rated too ill for a gland transplant. He gave her instead an injection of cells from the ground-up parathyroids of a newborn lamb. Last week...
...brought them to the edge of one environment, the Eastern woodland, and to the border of another environment, the Great Plains. The Texas Rangers were called into existence primarily to defend the settlements against Indians on horseback. While the conflict between the Rangers and the Comanches was at its height, Samuel Colt invented the revolver, the ideal weapon for a man on horseback...
Architectural design at its height creates interior spaces that are just as exciting in themselves as the façades. To enter a magnificent building is like entering a work of sculpture and seeing it anew from within. Yet such excitement is distracting in a museum, where the works, not the walls, are the thing. Le Corbusier, the most sculptural of all living architects, apparently kept this point well in mind at Tokyo. He braked himself to produce a squared-off, surprisingly unelaborate structure. The entrance leads straight through to a large central gallery, from which smaller galleries radiate...
Died. Billie Holiday, 44, Negro blues singer, whose husky, melancholy voice reflected the tragedy of her own life; in Manhattan. Born of indigent teenagers, schooled in a Baltimore brothel, she stubbornly nursed her resentment, poured it out in songs that reached their height of popularity in the early '40s - Billie's Blues, The Man I Love, above all, Strange Fruit, a description of a Negro lynching in the South - succumbed to the dope addiction which dogged...