Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper, the freshmen hardly figured to be outstanding. While not overly weak in height, they nevertheless lacked the very tall center who could assure them of a majority of rebounds in each of their games...
...Lack of height proved no handicap to the gold jerseys Wintergreen squad, as they surprised their taller opponents by outplaying them on the rebounds. Key man for the victors, guard Jim Jones of Dunster, used neat ball high scorers, with 11 and eight points respectively. Two Winthropmopn, Goorge doyle at guard and Dave Bodiker at forward tapped in seven and six points respectively to round out the four top Wintorgroon scorers...
...Kansas began as a magazine illustrator. By dint of great effort he outgrew that kind of work, although he never quite shook the slavishness to subject matter that is its mark. But Curry did have the boldness to conceive a Cineramic view of the land he loved. At the height of his fame, he called Wisconsin Landscape "my greatest." Grant Wood, like Benton, sowed some Midwestern oats in Paris. There he sported shocking pink whiskers and a Basque beret, painted hazy, impressionistic canvases. Back home in his native Iowa, he mainly taught art for a living. He shaved his round...
Died. Augustin Duncan, 80, veteran Broadway actor (A Man of the People, Lute Song) and producerdirector, brother of the late dancer Isadora Duncan and Poet-Lecturer Raymond Duncan; of a heart attack; in New York City. In the late '20s, at the height of his career, he began losing his sight but continued to act, in 1932 successfully played the part of the blind beggar in Synge's The Well of the Saints, acted other roles with such skill that audiences often forgot that he could...
...oldest and most primitive corn cobs--scarcely larger than a one-cent piece--were found in Bat Cave, N.M. They are estimated to date from 3000 to 3900 B.C., the botanists revealed. The plant bearing these cobs was thought to be a slender shoot, one or two feet in height...