Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setbacks, on the other hand, are another story. Now it is one thing to be blown off the court by Penn, but it is quite a different matter to be embarrassed by Brandeis, especially when a team has such an overwhelming talent and height advantage that it should be insured of a 20-point lead before the game even begins...
...season at New York's Metropolitan Opera has been improving steadily. The height is its presentation of Wagner's four-opera masterpiece, Der Ring des Nibelungen, opera's most ambitious undertaking. All performances have been sold out, but the most clamorous demand has been for the ones in which Birgit Nilsson, the only great Wagnerian soprano today, sings Brunnhilde. Then a couple of weeks ago, people with tickets to other performances won a bonus. When Leonie Rysanek, scheduled to sing Sieglinde in Die Walkure, got sick, Met General Manager Schuyler Chapin approached Nilsson, who was free...
...allying himself to another camp of Pepys interpreters, the 20th century aesthetes. For them, the true Pepys was a sort of underground artist, living in the silence, exile and cunning of his diary. Certainly Pepys was an avid collector of fine-bound volumes, which he arranged according to their height rather than subject matter, and he had a portrait of himself painted with a scrap of musical score in one hand. There is something more than a little bogus about Pepys the aesthete, as if he collected his culture the way he built up his cellar (he was a wine...
...Your integrity is everything in this business. And when you lose that, everything you've done is in question," a frazzled, enemic-looking Dressler told members of his lab at the height of the crisis. There is surely no logic to falsifying data, he kept saying, in order to "get published" in the prestige scientific journals, since the whole idea of such journals is to have other people repeat your presumably "successful" procedures and spread the wealth of knowledge...
Despite Radcliffe's significant height advantage the women still utilized a passing offense. "They were shorter but were still able to work the ball well. Overall we had a lot of team assists. People were really moving nicely," Guyton said...