Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diggory" delivers a letter stuck in a broom by way of a salver is palpably out of place. Also the numerous soliloquies, despite their difficulty, might have been given, with more skill. Once started, however, the play runs well, and mounts steadily from the beginning to a very creditable height in the third act and thereafter...
First produced in Buenos Aires in 1912, the play marks the height of theatrical achievement in South America. The play was written by one of the more modern Argentine playwrights, Senor Julio Sanchez Gardel, and was edited by Mr. Edward Hale Bierstadt, a specialist in the Argentine theatre...
...over Yale. We wish that we could express here also the admiration and gratitude which the College has for its team. But to do that fittingly we would have to reproduce in all its intensity that one heart stirring roar that began with Buell's run-back, reached its height at Owen's touchdown and has not entirely subscribed yet. That being impossible the best we can do is to add one final YEAY...
...being 176 to 173. Yale has a heavier second string than the University; while the first string elevens are almost equal in weight, the average weight of the entire Blue squad is six pounds more than that of the Crimson squad, the weights being 182 to 176. The average height of the University team is one-sixth of an inch more than the Yale team and the average age is four months more than that of the Elis, the figures being 5 feet 11 2-3 inches to 5 feet 11 1-2 inches, and 21 years 4 months...
...earliest dated Florentine book illustrated with a woodcut dates from 1490. After about 1500 the art declined so that it was at its height for only a short time...