Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions as taxation, tariff, railroad laws, farm credits, are 'due for consideration this session, and the domestic legislation which will be forthcoming should exert an unusually important influence on the course of business for coming years. For 1924 is a Presidential year, when political timidity is at its height, and when unsound and even publicly dangerous legislation can on occasion be jammed by force upon the statute books...
...been unbeaten for the last two years and which during that time has held the Massachussetts Squash Racquets championship. The University won its victory despite the fact that the match was played on the Union Boat Club Courts, to which the Crimson men were unaccustomed. Individual interest reached its height in the second match. Here, C. J. Lennihan of the Union Boat had G. D. Debevoise by two games and a score of 7-2 in the third, when the latter turned the tables, finished the game a 15-9 winner, and then took the last two games...
...content with holding the world's speed record, Lieutenant A. J. Williams achieved the world's climb record in his famous racer- rising Iike a rocket to a height of 5,000 feet in one minute...
...they are carefully trained to do. In his excitement, Private Aage Rasmussen, of the 62nd Aero Squadron, failed to let go; he was dragged aloft by the rope he was holding. He managed to swing this round his legs, and hung on. But not until it had reached a height of 400 feet could the crew of the TC2 cause the ship to descend by desperate pumping out of gas. And after tense minutes of alternate hope and fear the spectators saw the soldier let go, his strength failing when only 50 feet from the ground. He crashed...
When the college swarms' into the stadium at the end of practice this afternoon to cheer the coaches in their final kickoff to the first team, they will see that team at the height of its development before the battle with the Tiger...