Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ordinary air contains 21% oxygen. At a height of three miles oxygen is so scant that to live man needs to breathe from tanks of the gas. At four miles oxygen is but 10% of the atmosphere, and airplane motors need superchargers...
...Lowell House Tower and tap base bell with weather vane (unobtrusively removed from Dunster House at high noon three days before). Number of echoes indicates proper month. Using standard sextant, determine latitude and longitude. Look at watch to find time of day. Multiply sum of these results by the height in rods of new Chapel Tower. By the time this is done, spring will be over and the matter may safely be dropped...
...inseparable parts of the whole poem. It is true that the finest writing cannot be sustained and that a long poem can only hope to contain intermittent flashes of high lyric poetry. Nevertheless the narrative skill of the poet should lead one as artlessly as possible from one emotional height to the next...
Pole vault--Won by Woodburg (E); second, tie between Philips (E) and Wood (E). Height...
High jump--Won by Healey: second, tie between Phillips (E) and W. H. Hatch '34, Height...