Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team will be improved over the Crimson quintet which won only five games last season, Shepard feels. Six lettermen have returned, including four juniors with the important first year of varsity play behind them. Several of last year's freshmen are also expected to help the team with their height and rebounding ability...
...January 1951, he made his famous tour of the NATO nations, then came home at the height of the Great Debate on U.S. foreign policy to testify before Congress on whether or not Western Europe had the will and the power to defend itself, i.e., whether it was a sound investment for U.S. military help. Ike's answer was a firm yes. He swung popular and congressional opinion in a way Politician Harry Truman had been unable...
...Culver City, Calif., mechanics wheeled out the world's largest known helicopter for its first test flight last week. As the 125-ft.-long rotor blade began to twirl, the monster whirlybird rose aloft and flew around the field at a height of about 40 feet for 8.9 minutes. The XH-17, built for the Air Force by Planemaker Howard Hughes, is designed to lift for short distances loads of several tons (e.g., artillery, bridge sections, tanks and trucks) by straddling them like a lumber carrier. Power is provided by two General Electric turbojet engines astride the fuselage plus...
...like the Jaguar for its power (160-h.p. engine) and speed, the way it hugs the road and the hand-tooled precision of its parts. They buy three times as many Jaguar sedans as sport models, dote on such things as a steering wheel that is adjustable to the height of the driver...
...lovers in Toronto last week got one of the world's rare good looks at the work of a ranking woman painter of the 19th century. Her name was Berthe Morisot, and she lived from 1841 to 1895 at the height of French impressionism, yet today only a few know her name. She held but one big exhibit during her lifetime; ever since, most of her works have been out of sight. Toronto's Art Gallery spent a year negotiating with her daughter in Paris, finally managed to borrow 30 paintings on condition that the gallery would insure...