Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year Chief Greenskeeper Edward Casey and his staff worked over the course, improving the turf, coddling the greens. This week 30 maintenance men swarmed over Baltusrol, shaving the greens to a regulation three-sixteenths-inch height while power mowers droned along the edges of the fairways, barbering the marginal rough to a 2½inch crew cut (in the deep rough-"tiger country" to the pros-the grass is five inches high and very thick). Workers unreeled nearly ten miles of rope, fixing it into place along the entire course with 2,100 stakes (for the first time in Open...
...when the offensive was at its height, I got word that Luis Taruc wanted to see me again. I traveled in secrecy, since I did not want to break faith with the guerrilla by leading the soldiers to him. I waited, as arranged, in the church at Minalin, but Taruc did not show. Eventually, I got a note, again Taruc's "conditions" had dwindled...
...evoke it-that is what charms the imagination." The imagination is consistently charmed by Vuillard's subtle, dreamy interiors, in which he weaves motifs as unobtrusively compelling as those in an oriental brocade. Missia and Thadée Natanson (opposite), painted about 1897 when Vuillard was at the height of his sensational youthful success, is full of golden, slightly melancholic elegance. Missia Natanson sits in absolute relaxation and dignity, while her husband Thadée, an editor-friend of Vuillard's, leans contemplatively on a piano that is suggested rather than pictured. The busy, intricate patterns...
...result is that the Middlebury female, feeling superior to the boys across the street, wants to get away on week-ends, and her favorite direction is Hanover, New Hampshire. The height of achievement for a Middlebury class is to be pinned to a Dartmouth...
...height of coeducation at Middlebury is achieved during the ten to ten-thirty break in classes for chapel services. Attendance is required only once during the week (and on every other Sunday), so almost all students use this time to grab some breakfast at the frats...