Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gasoline, she responded with a twelve-cylinder roar to Pilot Carl B. Eielson's cry for "Contact!" Ice on the runway had melted, leaving about a foot of slush which the Alaskan churned high in the air as she shot forward. Lifting slowly but easily, she circled to a height of 1,000 feet over the landing field, then squared off north-by-west for Point Barrow, northernmost settlement on this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, wished to deposit supplies before asking her to carry him over the Arctic seas. About noon, Fairbanks reported a radio from...
Died. Che Mah, 88, self-styled "smallest man in the world; in Chicago. He was 28 inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size...
...crews that launch shells tomorrow are supposedly the three best 150 pounders. One of the former, Crew O, stroked by C. M. Norton, stroke and captain of last year's Groton boatmen, has the astounding average of 190 pounds for its eight men and an average height of six feet four inches...
...past year has seen more discussion and deploration of the professional aspect of athletics than almost any period in their history. Opinions of persons interested in sports, especially intercollegiate sports, reached the height of front page avidity, and drew serious comments from high college authorities. In the face of this throat to amateurism in sports, the athletic committees of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have thrown caution to the four winds and have openly assailed the pocketbooks of their respective alumni. How will this action effect public opinion as regards professionalism in athletics? What will be the effect on the alumni...
...Lake Superior in the shadow of a scowling granite face which Nature, in an angry mood, has carved on the mountainside. Sick to death of his fellowmen, he grasps at the ideal of the superman, whom no laws or conventions can touch, and seeks to raise himself to this height. The villagers are raw material for the exploitation of his new-found ideal. He lusts for the wife of his host; he plays upon the superstitions of the old people; he takes life and death into his own hands; and finally creates of the frowning face on the mountain...