Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American history should be as adaptable to musical interpretation as is French, Italian, German, or Hungarian. This idea is recurrent in his long series of works, which reached its height in the music of the Ter-centenary Celebration at Plymouth. In Mr. Gilbert's lecture tonight will meet traditions already builded and those still unformed. Because the union is probably an impermanent one, it should be remarked at this opprtunity...
...prohibition (". . . [other factors] and the advent of prohibition, have raised our standards of living and material comforts to a height unparalleled...
...Republicans who assemble in June at Kansas City, a simple majority of 545 are all that will be required to nominate. But such simple majorities are seldom arrived at without preliminary complications. What with Favorite Sons and Uninstruction and the wishful valor of Candidate Lowden's friends, the height of Hoover optimism last week was 414 delegates, or 131 shy. And of these 414, only 45 were on-the-dotted-line, there having been up to last week only seven State conventions and one primary election...
...Joseph Mayott of California lost 6 inches in height in 6 years...
...beam of electrons which, acting as a pointer, measures- the rise & fall, or wave shape of the voltages. When a wave of lightning encounters an obstruction it builds up to twice its power, just as a wave of water breaking on a wall will splash about twice its height. Therefore a direct voltage of 3,000,000 traveling along a line will suddenly jump to over 5,000,000 volts in & for the brief instant that it strikes the end of the line...