Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side the mountains rise, on the other runs a stone cliff 400 ft. high and 2,000 ft. long. This cliff terminates abruptly as the stream debouches abruptly upon a plain, and at the cliff, a giant shivver of it, detached from the main mass, rises the full height of the precipice, like a giant terminal column. It is called Chimney Rock and is one of the scenic spots of North Carolina. Beautiful views of the cliff and rock can be obtained from the modern road across the little valley...
...height of Mt. Logan as previously ascertained by distant measurement...
This pathetic action is in the eyes of newspapermen one of the heights of nobility-a height to which all aspire if they should ever be thrust into a similar situation. For them, it ranks with the heroism of the telephone girl who sticks to her post in a fire, is parallel to,the devotion to duty of the old Roman who executed his own son for disobeying military commands...
John Coolidge visited with his grandfather at Plymouth, Vermont, where he shingled the roof. His 1925 height was measured off against the doorjamb, and showed a gain of ½ inch?...
...disease, that the doses should be very small. Homeopathy is more than 125 years old. Some of its treatments have been taken over by the "regular school of medicine" (Allopathy), it is likewise the only one of the medical cults which receives any considerable recognition from the Allopaths. The height of its vogue is largely passed. Last week the members of the American Institute of Homeopathy met in Manhattan and made plans to raise $20,000,000 to build a college and hospital there...