Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preliminary game at 6:30 p.m., the Yardlings will meet the Wesleyan freshmen. Freshman coach Floyd Wilson plans to use George Doyle and Warren Kantrowitz as guards, Bob Bowman at center, and Bruce Downey and Howard Adler at the forwards. This team averages about 6 feet 2 inches in height, but is somewhat slower than Wilson would prefer. He was quite pleased, however, with the squad's showing against the Crimson's jayvees last Saturday...
During his last days in office, Mexico's President Miguel Alemán seemed at the height of his magnetic appeal. Wherever he went, dedicating public works (many of them unfinished) that he wanted identified with his regime, crowds collected and cheered. At his residence one morning, 10,000 civil servants serenaded him, then presented him with an unofficial medal of gratitude. Later a 200-car caravan, filled with nearly 1,000 men, women & children, arrived outside the palace from Nogales, on the Arizona border, to thank the retiring leader for his public works...
...address is 361 Washington," he began. "Third floor. At exactly 2:10, me and one of the inspectors went up to the front door of the flat, and Fitzgerald"--he pointed to a man of medium height with rough features--"he and another inspector went up the back. They bolted the doors as soon as we knocked. But Fitzgerald had a sledge hammer with him, in case' something like that happened. He bashed in the back door...
Along with speed and shooting eyes, the varsity this year has an average height of 6 feet 1 inch. Lionette at 6 feet 5 inches tops the team, with Shaw and Sachs about even at 6 feet 3 inches. Bulger is the only starter under six feet-he stretches to five feet 9 inches. Sachs and Lionette are consistently the best rebounders on the first five, though Manning covered the boards best for the team in its three scrimmages so far this fall...
...years) under various pen names (Golden MacDonald, Timothy Hay); of complications following an appendectomy; in Nice, France. Author Brown did much of her work in a deserted old house on the Maine coast liked the challenge of writing for five-year-olds because she thought they were at the height of their sensory awareness...