Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan's long-distance scientific atom-bomb watchers (TIME, March 12 et seq.) were convinced that a nuclear weapon fired by the U.S. July 3 over Bikini was carried by a rocket, not an airplane, and that it exploded at a height of at least 22 miles...
...Lincoln in Illinois, I do not hesitate to rate him as one of the very top young actors of our day. I don't believe he could give a poor performance. He impresses both my eye and ear as being like what I suspect Raymond Massey was at the height of his prime...
...minutes in a strange sort of solitude under the flaring floodlights. Then he came back, peeled off his sweat clothes and squinted at the bar. His nostrils flared, and he charged, slamming the take-off point with his left foot and pushing himself 11⅛ in. above his own height...
...that easy: in 1953 came the thoughts of a third party-and the conflicts with congressional diehards continued in 1954. At a Cabinet meeting, when the furor over Republican Senator John Bricker's proposed amendment (to limit the President's treatymaking power) was at its raucous height. Civil Service Commissioner Philip Young facetiously suggested that perhaps a few A-bombs "could be used now to good effect." Says Donovan: "The President took him to task for this. He said sharply that he did not wish to hear any talk of a 'Pride's Purge.' "* Through...
...height of a letter in a certain size of print is ¼ inch. If the following are the heights [in inches] of this letter in other sizes of print, which one is the next larger size...