Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seaweed, which grows to a height of 900 ft., is the world's biggest vegetable...
...highenergy, high-altitude explosions to cause "eclipse blindness"-lesions of the retina, so called because they have most often happened to people who watch eclipses of the sun without protecting their eyes. Rabbits were chosen as the test animals. AEC scientists found that an explosion the size and height of Teak delivers its thermal energy in less time than a rabbit (or a man) can blink. Said the report grimly: "Retinal burns were produced in the rabbits at distances up to 300 nautical miles." This tended to support earlier Army research indicating that an atomic fireball bursting over a battlefield...
...bracket, the tables showed, men average 5 ft. 8 in. tall, weigh 159 Ibs. Height remains constant through ages 85-89, but by then the average weight has dropped to 148 Ibs. In the early 905, men average an inch shorter and tip the scales at a wispy 136 Ibs. Women aged 65-69 average 5 ft. 3 in. tall and weigh 141 Ibs.; those in the upper 80s are an inch shorter and weigh...
...said Dr. Master, is to show the tie-up between excess weight and diabetes, gall-bladder trouble, and diseases of the heart, arteries and kidneys. Already evident, he said, is that in both sexes after 65, blood pressure goes up with weight, but has little or no relationship to height alone. And despite the popular belief that tall people die younger, height has nothing to do with longevity. Weight is the villain, Dr. Master concluded. "It is clear that obesity reduces the life span, and the outlook for thin persons is more favorable." That average weights are so much less...
Broken Journey. John Calvin was 27 and a thoroughly skilled philosopher-theologian on the July day in 1536 when he first arrived in Geneva-a tired, thin young man of middle height with a pale, finely chiseled face, a long nose and a pointed beard. On his way from Paris to Strasbourg, where he planned to settle down and study, he was detoured through Geneva by military operations, intended to stay in the city only overnight. But a red-bearded Protestant named William Farel, who was having his troubles advancing the Reformation in Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman...