Word: heighte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good example of an employee's closeness to Harvard is Donna M. Estella, who works in the payroll office ("The payrolls come into us, and we key them right into the machine"). Before the computer came in, recalls Estella, a blond-haired woman of middle height who wears blue overalls to work, work meant "filing, filing, filing." Estella does not mind the computers and she seems to appreciate her bosses, because they are understanding about the pressure of monthly deadlines. Estella says that she doesn't really depend on work to the extent "that I fear that if anything went...
...purpose of reclassifying university zoning would not aim at stopping the schools from building but to subject Harvard and MIT to the same constraints a private developer faces, such as special permits, city review control and height control, Clem said after the meeting...
Embree looked sharp at 7 ft. 2 in., trying the University mark on his first attempt at that height. "I was leading the field at that point because of fewer misses," he said...
When the bar was raised to 7 ft. 4 in., however, the tri-captain lost his form in his first two attempts. "A new height always creates a mental block that's tough to overcome," he said. "On my last try, though, I would have made it with a thinner pair of shorts," Embree added...
...surveys. Berger describes putting together the chapter on aging that appears in the second edition. She sent out hundreds of questionnaires, she says, and she was amazed at the responses she received. Women between the ages of 20 and 40--women who are supposed to be at the height of their sexual activity--complained far more frequently of the traditional symptoms of menopause (hot and cold flushes, headaches and fatigue) than did women between 60 and 80. Medical experts don't even know which symptoms are the direct result of the hormonal change, and which are secondary. There...