Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entry from the diary of Dr. Robert H. Goddard, an obscure physics professor and engineer. The day before, Goddard had launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from a field on his Aunt Effie's farm near Auburn, Mass. The 2½ sec. flight carried the rocket to a height of only 41 ft. and a speed of 60 m.p.h. But it convinced Goddard that the science of rocketry would one day land a man on the moon...
...Reporter Trotta cited 1973 and 1974 reports that "tankers loaded with millions of gallons of oil were waiting offshore in New York Harbor" at the height of the oil shortage. But there was no mention, as Mobil felt there should have been, of later investigations that failed to support the parked-tankers stories...
...back and the show closes. The audience, full of Loeb big-timers, streams into the greenroom after curtain calls and a crew of T-shirted techies replaces the actors on stage to tear down the set. Author Philip LaZebnik stands out in the greenroom, partially because of his lanky height, partially because of the flock of people who rush to shake his hand. But each actor is surrounded by his own crowd; they smile in a daze, drained and wet. Some of them are on the verge of tears, others just eat popcorn, saying the "empty feeling...
...services, pose no such problems. And he doesn't seem too worried about preserving free speech within the class room. "No prudent person would attempt to predict how individuals will behave in a decade from now when the university will be operating in full capacity." It would be the height of folly to say how things will be in Iran, as it would have been to foresee what it would be like starting a school in India a few years ago, he says. "And if the university is like we want it to be in the 1980s then everybody will...
With the constantly increasing height and mobility of college big men, the ref underneath has a chore tantamount to untangling gregarious octopi. "The referee on the outside is the key to the whole game" explains Hannon. "He has the best picture. He's the bailout...