Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berserk Feather. Near the headwaters of California's two most important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...
...their subjects, like the Dalai Lama, had never been photographed before, and may never never again, as the Communists have just topped off their invasion with a Peking-to-Lhasa express highway. Probably the most exciting scenes are those in the country's great plains which, at an average height of 15,000 feet above sea level, are surrounded by mountains 10,000 feet higher...
...court, divided in the middle by a not, is 96 feet by 31 feet 8 inches, with a 7-foot "penthouse" surrounding three-quarters of it. The height of the play line above which the ball cannot go is 18 feet at the sides and 23 feet at the ends...
...height, weight and breadth of 18-year-olds can be predicted with "a high degree of probability" when they are only a few years old, reported New York City's Dr. Irving Kowaloff in the New York State Journal of Medicine. Examples, based on statistical studies of large numbers of children: when a boy is two years old, his height and pelvic breadth should be multiplied by two, his weight by five, to predict what his measurements will be when he is 18. The same formula applies to girls' dimensions, except that weight and height should be calculated...
Overconfidence--not unnatural after Saturday's big win over Cornell--and a fast-breaking Jumbo outfit that might catch fire this evening could make the pre-game records insignificant. In addition, Tufts has the advantage in height...