Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college men of today. The Los Angeles finds, named the Haverty group in honor of the Irish contractor who found them, have brain cases as large as modern men; their last molar ("wisdom") teeth are underdeveloped as in civilized men; their stature was extraordinary, reaching seven feet in height...
...Salmon River country, south of Lewiston, Idaho, a skeleton of a woman more than eight feet in height was discovered in a cliff. This also seemed to belong to an herbivorous race. Scientists are reserved in their judgment until it has been examined by Smithsonian experts...
...this home of the bean and the cod where the Lodges may play with the Moynahan's and Cassldy's, it is with pleasure that the paper honors of the evening are split three ways: between Moynahan, Cassldy, and Lodge Moynahan's feet, as usual; Cassldy's height and line; Lodge's general excellence. Hodder exercises a mean mashieniblick with his part, which may not be the higher criticism, but means what it says. The chorus (let us speak now of the young ladies) has an uncommon ability to smile and smile and keep...
...Francisco is a pugilist looking for a fight. Age, 21. Weight, 147. Height, 5 ft. 7 in. Nationality, Mexican. Sex, female. Her nose is slightly askew; otherwise she shows no marks of her profession...
Lieutenants M. L. Elliot and Homer B. Chandler made a record flight from Buffalo to Mineola, L. I. With a favorable wind of 40 miles an hour, they covered the 310 miles in 2 hours, 21 minutes, averaging nearly 150 miles an hour. Flying south of Binghamton, at a height of 6,000 feet, the officers encountered a flock of Canadian geese flying north in "V" formation. The flock broke into circular formation just in time to avoid collision. Had they struck the plane, it is probable that no damage would have resulted-except to the geese. But the propeller...