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According to F. Gregg Bemis '22, fundraising chairman, the advantages of such a construction are many. In addition to cheaper initial costs of construction and maintenance, he points out practically that the floor of the facility will be at a constant height above water level, which will ease access to the floats and handling of the boats...
Everything is geared to the average size of people 50 years ago. Look at the height of the average kitchen or bathroom sink, doorknob, table and the like. It is even difficult to find enough room in the front seat of many cars...
...people are growing taller. The average height for a full-grown male under age 30 is 5 ft. 10⅓ in. Yes, Mr. Feldman, time is on our side...
...handy peg. Iran ("home of the Aryans") was settled by an Aryan tribe from what is now southern Russia. Cyrus, a leader of the Achaemenian dynasty of the tribe, accepted Babylon's surrender in 539 B.C., and by the next year had founded an empire that at its height stretched from present-day India to the Aegean, and from the Danube to the Nile...
...Vogel, and does brilliantly. He becomes an acolyte of great men and husband to the daughter of a world-famous physician. Death is no mystery to him; it is simply a cold, banal fact. Love is the great puzzle, and it keeps turning cancerous in his hands. At the height of his career, Jesse is an important Chicago neurosurgeon. Delivering a learned paper on "Retrograde Amnesia," he notes that in certain brain injuries recent memories are more easily extinguished than distant memories. "Is it a function of the normal brain," he asks, "to hold the present cheaply and to honor...