Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene. Crushed together, reporters shouted their questions; photographers climbed on the bar, on tables, stools, railing, on each other's shoulders for height, and, with flashbulbs crunching underfoot, shouted orders at their victim: "Hey, Grace! Looka me!" "Stand up, Grace!" "Take it off, Grace [the hat]!" Other photographers, crowded out onto the deck, whammed their fists against the glass wall to catch her attention. The conference got so out of hand that a pressagent shouted: "Please! Please! Behave like ladies and gentlemen!" Another cried: "This is a press conference, not a riot! Unless you back up and give this...
...satellites" will be fired to a height of 200 to 800 miles, Whipple stated, for observation of gravitational effects at this altitude. The missiles, he added, are "unprepossessing in appearance" since they only consist of 30-inch spheres and weight 21 pounds...
...only one metropolitan paper ever discovered this. The height of the general misinformation occurred in the usually conscientious and well-informed New York Times. Its post-game report under the by-line of Allison Danzig took his ignorance out on the Harvard swimmers. Danzig said they failed when actually no losing team has ever done so well...
...Harrington will lead his freshman team in the season's final game. Griff McClellan, Jim Smith, Alex Christ, and Bob Repetto are probable starters. The Crimson carries a 10-4 record into the tilt, after upsetting Brown last Wednesday, 82 to 75. The Yardlings will depend chiefly on their height and rebounding ability which has shown to be their main asset throughout the year. Harrington has led the team from the backcourt with his playmaking...
...achieve the negative, heat is supplied by forcing air over hot-water pipes in the ceiling-in an earlier building the children tore ordinary radiators apart. Walls are lined with rugged tile up to a height of seven feet. Thermostats are covered by grills. Door hinges are made so that they cannot be dismantled. Beds, like other furniture, are of rugged, 1¼-in. oak. "We tried steel beds before," says Dr. Waggoner, "and they only lasted a few months...