Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern center in 1927. This is Schwartz's third year in intercollegiate competition and his wealth of experience combined with natural leadership abilities will go a long way towards keeping the team together as a fighting unit. Schwartz is not big; he stands five feet, 10 inches in height and tips the beam at only 180, but he has other qualities which will make him a man well worth watching in the battle with the Crimson...
...morning last week, crashed into and wrecked another automobile which had appeared suddenly out of a side street. Two men got out of the first car. Came a policeman, who was surprised when one of the men handed him a driver's license reading: "John Coolidge, age 21, height 6 ft., residence 21 Massasoit St., Northampton, Mass." The other man was William Cunningham, chauffeur of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut. But John Coolidge, returning from a visit to his mother and the Governor in Plainville, Conn., had been driving the Governor's car when it crashed. In the wrecked...
...miles long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three days. Throughout the whole region the air was noxious with fumes of decay. Immediate cremation...
...plans for the building specify a ten story structure of 100 feet in height with stores on the first floor, and office suites on the second floor. The city building ordinance restricts the height of buildings in that zone to eighty feet. The restrictions of the ordinance would have to be set aside before construction on the apartments could begin. Mr. Emery, in speaking before the board wished to know what assurance adjacent property owners would have, once the zoning restrictions had been laid to one side, that any sort of objectionable structure might not later be erected...
...idea for the building was conceived by Mr. W. B. Foshay, who has taken his inspiration from the Washington Monument at Washington, D. C. The building, which is a tower, rising from a two-story base, is 447 feet and three inches in height above the street. It is 81 by 87 feet at the base and 59 by 65 feet at the top. It is as far as we know the only commercial building in the World that has sloping sides and where the set back occurs at the second floor placing the building proper away from street noises...