Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indication of origin shall be conspicuously and durably marked in ink on the shell of each imported egg in letters not less than two millimetres in height...
...world records for altitude and speed with weight (TIME, March 10). Last week Pilot Sergievsky, who like his employer, Igor Sikorsky, is a naturalized U. S. citizen, filled a Sikorsky seaplane with two long tons (4,409.24 Ib.) of "pay load" and climbed with it to a height of 19,500 feet over North Beach, Long Island. The old altitude record for two-ton seaplanes was 15,837 ft. The significance: the U. S. is catching up with Europe in development of high-climbing, load-carrying seaplanes, essential to coastal and intercontinental air transport (especially in South America...
...been rudely dispelled by an emphatic vote of approval for brown eyes, black hair, and "speed" of an unspecified amount from Dartmouth seniors. A public led by impressionistic journalists to believe that a demure Dartmouth student body picks its feminine ideals out of Cooper's novels and that the height of conviviality in Hanover is represented by an ice cream soda, should be jolted from smug approval by that word "speed", which while not specific, somehow manages to convey an impression of cocktails and rumble seats...
...Humidity, more exactly relative humidity, is the amount of water vapor in the air. The warmer the air at any height the more vapor it can carry. A humidity of 60 means that the atmosphere is 60% saturated...
High jump--First, tie between J. S. Wickham (C) and J. H. Moody (D), height 6 ft., 1 3-4 in.; third E. H. Ebelhare (C), height...