Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy ivory tower now grown so tall that the big brass not only can't see the trees but are fast losing sight of the forest itself? Of course it is the height of giddy conceit to think that a seagull can be made the bull to a school of whales. The appointment of a naval aviator, Rear Admiral Frank Akers, as ACNO for undersea warfare [TIME, Aug. 24], seems to be forcing just such an arrangement. In their effort to keep apace with the Air Force in projecting themselves into the pushbutton future, the Navy has apparently relegated...
...feet away, a parabolic mirror points overhead to gather the searchlight's reflected glow and focus it on a photoelectric cell. As the clouds rise or fall, reflections vary. In the radio shack, remote-reading indicators record the angle at which the searchlight beam bounces back. Measuring cloud height is then a matter of simple trigonometry...
...Irving elementary school in Waverly, Iowa, Architects Lawrence Perkins and Philip Will went on the theory that children are happiest in their own little community. They equipped each classroom with its own washroom, scaled its windows and ceilings to child-size. Other kinds of rooms, however, are of different heights, and each height has its reasons. The low-ceiling corridors leave room for extra clerestory windows in the classrooms, but the high-peaked playroom is designed in part for adults who want to hold dances or meetings at night...
...taunts about a broken romance. Said Lawyer Otterbourg: "A very reprehensible thing." But he added that individual newspapers will probably continue to print confessions because they are news-"as long as the law of the jungle prevails." At all such talk, Manhattan's Daily News roared: "The height of impudence...
...answers go back to puberty, and the popular fallacy that girls mature faster than boys. Kinsey notes that girls reach puberty a year earlier than boys, but this is only the beginning of adolescence and is no index to sexual maturity. Boys reach maturity (the height of their physical power for sexual activity) by their late teens, and are already on the downgrade in their early 203. But the curve of a girl's growing need for sex (or the breaking down of her inhibitions) rises only slowly in her teens,* keeps on rising slowly until...