Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traits & Interests: height, 5 ft. 11 in.; weight, 165 Ibs.; blue-grey eyes, ruddy complexion, black hair turning grey; affable, self-assured, vigorous speaker with an infectious smile; used to ride horses and play golf (after a hole in one in 1934, decided to rest on his achievement, quit the game). His wife is the former Regina Clark, a former special deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania. They have two boys (11 and 9) and a girl (6). A Roman Catholic, McGranery has been honored by the Pope: he is a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great...
Strange tastes recently noticed in the water at several University dining halls were due to an algae condition in the Cambridge reservoir. The contamination reached its height last week, but has reoccured periodically since...
...Named for Sir George Everest (1790-1866), surveyor general of India. Original trigonometric surveys (1852) placed the height at 29,002 ft., a figure still widely accepted. Later computations (1905), still not accurate because of atmospheric refraction complications, place the height...
...some have maintained, success in a matter like this is too much to expect on first attempt, and condemnation should be withheld until the Convention has talked over the problem further. But there is more than beginners' ill-luck involved, for what the Convention seeks to guide is the height of heterogeneity. The World Press includes government and party organs, responsible independents, newspapers which are one big editorial, and many other different types. Moreover, those attempting to supply guidance offer no less in their conceptions of newspapers' responsibilities. Differences in the type of journalism their nations have had to contend...
...wisecracks with the Queen of Venus and her Venusmen. Again in The Clown, Lahr soliloquizes as a cross-eyed Pagliacci, clowns through a superdeadpan imitation of Rudolph Valentino in Sapanish costume, and mimics a stately Spanish dance while peering down the front of a dancing partner twice his height. It is Lahr's grimaces, pantomine, and periodic exclamations ("Gonggg") that put these scenes across. The frequent appearance of six G-strung showgirls adds the final touch of burlesque atmosphere...