Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thayer was unable to cope with Mallone's height, and consistently fouled in a vain attempt to stop...
Warned to make their designs "harmonize with the historically developed architecture of Moscow" and not to copy "the ugly system of capitalist building," Stalin's draftsmen spread their efforts over acres of ground, but in reaching for height, they were unable to avoid imitating at least one American skyscraper. The Moscow vysotnye zdania or "tall buildings," bear a marked resemblance to New York's 1913 Woolworth building, but to Woolworth Gothic the Soviet architects added adornments borrowed from classical sources, and some of their own devising. Thus all eight vysotnye carry tall spires mounting garlanded Red Stars...
Back in the hey-day of the New Deal, it was almost the height of fashion for bright young Harvard men to go trooping off to Washington upon graduation. But today the traffic is no longer all one-way. In an educational version of "massive retaliation," steadily increasing numbers of career government servants are converging on Cambridge every year, most of them to pursue studies of one kind or another at the Littauer School of Public Administration...
Harvard's basketball team, small in height, weak in scoring potential, but, nevertheless strong in its desire to win for Coach Floyd Wilson, will open its season against Northeastern tonight. The varsity game, preceded by a freshman contest at 6:15, will start at 8:15 in the Huskies' now gymnasium...
...Zabilski's Huskies, 5-10 Captain Eddie Ayres will be the man the Crimson need fear the most. Ayres scored 18 points in their loss Saturday. Lacking height, Northeastern's strength lies in the outside shooting of Ayres and George O'Rourke, also...