Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice Brandeis' saying about the height of trees there is no provision for a limit on how far trees should sink their roots into the ground or how wide they should spread. If he has never before exerted the direct influence upon U. S. life that he may be expected to exert henceforth, a case could be made to prove that Louis Dembitz Brandeis has indirectly influenced the trend of U. S. political thought and action as much as the most influential of his colleagues...
...endless stream of gold flowed to their high capitals from mines deep in the gorges of the Andes. Forced labor was used and few except the conquered Indians and their masters knew the exact location of the mines. Along mile-high precipices, over the backs of peaks twice that height, the laborers toiled with bags of nuggets. Llamas could carry only 100 Ib. through that rarefied air, burros-even though an extra set of nostrils had been punched through their nasal passages at birth-about 150 Ib. Men were cheaper, but when forced labor was abolished no paid workers could...
Eliot and Adams each placed two men in the select company, the Elephants being Carter H. White '38, hard driving fullback, and tackle Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. '38, whose six feet four inches in height and 203 pounds in weight made him the biggest man in House ball. Husky Paul G. Counihan '39 won the other tackle berth for Adams, and George Akerson, Jr. '39 got the nod at left end for the Gold-coasters...
...truth is that the instrument hasn't a broad enough beam for its height. Since the drumheads are approximately six feet in diameter, the surface area of each is about 28 1-4 square feet, if you remember your plane geometry. When the calfskin is hit a good wallop, this makes quite a radius of vibration; unfortunately the sides are so close together that most of it is dissipated inside the drum, producing a low tone that doesn't carry very far. But the tone is there nevertheless, and the claim that the real boom is produced by a smaller...
...which with the liner's position when found, indicated that the pilot had proceeded in a direct line at full speed to the point where he crashed, that he apparently had perfect confidence he was on his course. His altitude was 10,000 feet, the approved height on his normal course. Two trappers who were nearby at the time of the accident, reported a sudden, violent wind and snow squall. United Air Lines quickly issued a report blaming weather conditions for rendering "the radio inoperative...