Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princess Teru-No-Miya-Shigeko, aged one, weight 28 pounds, height two feet four inches, precocious daughter of Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan, crawled and once even toddled about her royal nursery last week, examining her first birthday presents. Each of the hundreds of presents was a fish. Each fish was alive, wrapped carefully in damp perfumed moss and encased in a handsome and expensive birthday basket...
Although the expedition was intended primarily as a pleasure excursion, the climbers did some valuable scientific work in mapping the topography and making exact records of the mountain's height...
General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, age 100, height six feet, beloved as "The Father of the Guards," author of Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life (1916), beamed exultantly last week at the news that the Grenadier Guards' minimum height requirement has again been raised to the traditional six feet after being lowered to five feet ten a year ago because six-footers of good fighting calibre were growing scarce...
...years ago, when the campaign against overemphasis of football was at its height, committees from the Big Three met and decided to begin all football training not earlier than September 15. Keene Fitzpatrick, Princeton trainer, T. A. D. Jones, Yale Coach, and athletic leaders at the University were against the plan but it has been in force during the last two seasons, with more or less disastrous results to the football teams...
...word a combination of a sort of introspection with the idea of the infinite or striving for endlessness, to use the jargon of the German romanticists. That is to say, an ironist in the romantic sense not only looks down upon his ordinary ego from the height of his "transcendental ego", and stands aloof from it, but there is in him something which may even stand aloof from this aloofness and so ad infinitum...