Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...measured terms as " the greatest man I have ever known with any degree of intimacy," one is not surprised to find him an educator. The man is Frederick William Sanderson, headmaster of Oundle School, Northamptonshire, England, who died last year at the age of 66 in the height of his powers. He is the hero of a biographical sketch by Wells now running serially in The New Republic...
...building will be 150 feet square, faced with brick. The interior is to contain a regular sized diamond, lighted by a large sky light supported by steel roof trusses. At the center of the diamond the clear height to the trusses is to be 42 feet. Outside the playing field are to be two tracks, each 12 feet wide, and having 12 laps to the mile with banks at the turns. One will be placed at the same level as the playing field and have a cinder surface. The other track is to be directly above with a wood floor...
...unit. His section was in the big attack around Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917. After the ambulance section broke up, he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected because of defective eyesight. He went to Italy, drove an ambulance up and down Mt. Grappa during the height of the Austrian drive. He returned to America in July, 1918, was immediately enlisted in the Army ambulance, received training and was sent back to France, but never had any active service with our own forces...
...Lieutenant John A. Macready of coast-to-coast fame and Lieutenant A. W. Stevens will photograph the eclipse on Sept. 10 at an altitude of 20,000 feet. While the moon's shadow passes over the earth at 1,000 miles per hour, the aviators at this tremendous height will see it for more than a minute and will be able to make some unique and extremely valuable records...
...weeks ago they lost 6,000,000 francs ($330,600.00); last week saw the coup de grÂce with a loss of 10,000,000 francs ($551,000.00) ; the bank was broken and the E Deauville Casino, for the first time in history, is in darkness at the height of the season. Lost ? 18,500,000 francs; produced?nothing...