Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best collection of these relics in the United States is at the Peabody Museum, Boston. At its height the Mayan race probably numbered several million people, and the population of Chichen Itza was about 500,000. Their decorative arts show exquisite workmanship. Astronomy and mathematics were highly developed. They had an elaborate picture writing, much of which has been deciphered, giving the clue to many dates in inscriptions and chronicles. Their calendar was the most complex and exact known in the ancient world, with a century of 52 years, and a year of 18 months of 20 days each...
...upon and it is nearly an even toss as to which of the two catchers and three pitchers will start. Of the latter, Hamilton is probably the leading possibility. He has distinguished himself as a successful southpaw despite the fact that he is only five feet four inches in height--perhaps the smallest pitcher in the ranks of the Eastern colleges...
...weighs 190. Harry Wills, Negro champion, rises to 6 feet 3 and weighs 215. Luis Firpo measures 6 feet 2 and weighs 225. Floyd Johnson, matched to meet Willard in New York in May, stands 6 feet 1 and weighs 195. Willard is the giant of the group: height 6 feet 6, weight 250. With the possible exceptions of Dempsey and Harry Wills, it is doubtful that these men could hold their own with Langford or any others to whom size was no handicap some two or three decades...
Within a month the annual Spring Drive of musical comedies will be at ts height. By the first of June the hot weather revues will have usurped the roof gardens, the showmen of the metropolis will have banished serious drama from the theatre on the ancient theory that winter is the only time of year when the public cares to have its mind stimulated or its emotions massaged. All of which provokes one to philosophize on the musical show as a form of entertainment...
...placed first in the shotput with a heave of 39 feet 6 inches. For the Whites L. K. Marshall 5E.S. and H. R. Davis '23 won first place in the hammer throw and pole vault respectively. The distance in the former was 139 feet 11 inches, and the height in the latter 11 feet. J. M. Greeley 2E.S., of the Reds, and Malcolm Morse '24, of the Whites, shared the top position in the high jump, both of them going over the bar at 5 feet 8 inches...