Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart, Meat-Dresser Campolo last week met in a Brooklyn fight ring the recurrent Thomas Heeney of Australia, who since his battle with onetime Champion Tunney has been married, grown fat, taken maulings in two of his three fights. The prodigious Campolo, dominating Heeney half a foot in height, 20 pounds in weight, many inches in reach,* needed no glower to terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut which hoisted Heeney clean off the canvas...
...years the maximum height for buildings in Boston was 125 feet above the street. Three years ago this was changed to 155 feet, and today we have a most unique law which does not restrict the height of a building provided its cubical contents do not exceed the area of the lot times 155. This represents the height of human ingenuity in determining how to solve traffic and light problems...
...Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Britain's impotent minority Labor Government, reopened diplomatic relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Within a few months the Labor Government was defeated on its Russian policy, a general election was called. At the height of a bitter campaign Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail printed in noble indignation a letter apparently from Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, "Bomb boy of Bolshevism," onetime director of the Third International, urging British Communists to revolt, Communist sympathizers in the British Army and Navy to mutiny. As a result the election went overwhelmingly Conservative. Soviet officials denied the Zinoviev...
...presented himself at headquarters for the routine of enrollment. On his registration blank under "Father's Occupation" he wrote: "Nothing special." He took a bath, was given a close haircut, his undress uniform. His room was a single one in the south barracks. On the basis of height he was assigned to the Second Company where he got a place in the front rank. Late the first afternoon with other new cadets on the parade grounds he took his oath of allegiance...
Tall, gaunt William Tatem Tilden II once hurt his finger on his right hand while he was at the height of his career. It was characteristic of him to walk down a Philadelphia theatre aisle holding the injured member aloft so that all might see. Miss Wills, ace of women players, from the opposite edge of the U. S., is just the opposite sort of person...