Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demonstration. Said Stevenson: "You have inspected some of the finest political livestock in the U.S. [But] we've reserved until this morning the prize human animal for your approbation." Stevenson was keeping up his record of an aphorism a day. To New York Publisher Dorothy Schiff, at the height of the convention tiredness, he had said: "intellectual rigor mortis...
...they were immediately snowed in for three days. Six days later, they built a base camp of snowblocks at 17,220 ft. Susan stayed there; the bearded Swiss slogged on for three days to 18,500 ft. and pitched a tent for their high camp. At that rarefied height, the temperature, in the bright sunlight, 122° F.; twelve hours later it fell to -15°. Nevertheless, the climbers toiled on next day, up another 1,300 ft. to a cave. The following morning, as the sun rose out of the steaming Amazonian jungles far to the east, they moved...
...eighth grade, at the age of 12½, Bob entered his first real track meet. He high-jumped 5 ft. 6 in. The same day, Gene was competing in a high-school meet, where the winning height was 5 ft. 5 in. "There just wasn't much doubt about it," Mrs. Mathias says, "the boy was beginning to get awfully good...
Worse still, the strike had shut down the Lake Superior iron mines at the height of the ore shipping season, creating the prospect of a new steel shortage next winter for lack of ore. Even if the strike ends soon, the industry will have trouble making up the lost...
...expect justice," said Emile Zola in 1897, at the height of his fame. "I know that I must disappear." So far as his literary popularity was concerned, the forecast was sound. After his death in 1902, his readers began dropping away. Between 1932 and 1952 not a single book about Zola was published in English. In the U.S., thanks to Actor Paul Muni's performance in a movie version of his life, Zola is stereotyped as an angry old Frenchman in a plug...