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Word: heights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before the important meets arrive. The pole vaulters, however, have been doing extremely well. Both E. T. Clark '28 and B. G. Burbank '28 have been consistently clearing the bar at 12 feet, while R. B. O'R. Hocking '28 has been doing 11 and a half feet. This height will be considerably increased when the vaulters move out of doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K. OF C. GAMES TO BE TRACK OPENER | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

...collaborate with Bartender Tammen in one of the most prodigious campaigns for circulation in the history of journalism. They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists. They told them that their serv- ices for Publisher Hearst had been the height of probity compared to what they must do now. They must hell-rake kitchens and what passed in Denver then for boudoirs, for scandal and gossip of the most personal sort. Their gleanings they must then dress with language and emphases known only to habitues of a raucous young country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panders | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...synonymous with idiocy; they are opposed to physical force for their own or others protection; they deny the reason for which governments exist. They believe pains from the moral source are the pains derived form the unfavorable sentiments of mankind. These pains are capable of rising to a height with which hardly any other pains incident to our own nature can be compared, and under which hardly any man, not below the standard of humanity, can endure to live. It will supersede the use of other means yes Military. They are afraid of Military action because the action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/12/1927 | See Source »

Sirs: Please note that the American Insurance Union Citadel of 38 stories attained the height of 360 feet, May, 1926, at Columbus, Ohio, is the highest building in the world outside New York City, and could also be included in list of skyscrapers in TIME, Dec. 13. WENDELL KOCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Chicago Tribune is published in a building 462 feet in height...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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