Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lead this year's Freshman football eleven by a vote of his teammates yesterday afternoon. Ticknor, who plays fullback, has been one of the chief elements in the first year Crimson attack so far this fall. His 195 pounds of weight distributed over 6 feet 3 inches of height give him a powerful line-bucking drive which has been a valuable asset to the Freshmen in tearing open opposing lines this season. Against Andover two weeks ago he showed up particularly well, scoring one of his team touchdowns and proving a great source of defensive strength...
...scenes of intense vividness are many. Not only is there a brutally distinct picture of the guillotine, but a first-hand description of being guillotined. At this point the author's imagination reaches its greatest height. The spirit aloofly observes the physical phenomena of the body just before it climbs the scaffold. It watches the blade descend, sees the twitching limbs left on the board and the staring eyes of the head in the bloody basket. Then as a vitreous transparent body, seeing and hearing, but not feeling, he travels the world in a search for the mating humans...
...bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that it is so difficult to demolish them. It takes the bergs about one year to drift down from Baffin Bay to the Northern area of the Banks. Their length at this time averages about five city blocks, while their height runs from 200 to 300 feet. It was calculated that there are usually some 100,000 tons of ice above the water, and since the bergs ride about seven-eights under water, the total weight of each is about 800,000 tons. Icebergs have a most mystifying habit of seeking...
...clay, sand and water into forms. Usual size is close to 21¼ x 4 x 8¼ in. Such blocks are dried in the air or in a warm draft. Then they are stacked in a hemispherical kiln usually 30 feet in diameter by 12 feet in height. A yard full of kilns looks quite like a group of dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they are burned hard and useful. Their red color is the result...
Only one who can hear the pulse of a city can divine what Boston is thinking about the reports from overseas, full as they are of the names of Isadora Duncan. It was in Boston that she reached the height of her sensationalism, when she danced across the boards of Symphony Hall in a garb flaming and diaphanous. The not inconsiderable Socialist population of Gotham could never learn of he deportation in face of the God's-in-his-heaven, all's-right-with-the-world air with which the Boston press pounced upon the news. This blatant person...