Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some half dozen big U. S. cities, Nov. 2 will be election day, and in such places last week off year political campaigns were at their height. Some which enjoyed pleasurable excitement...
...about the two disposal plants of the living body, the liver and kidneys, all medical scientists come to attention. As blood flows through these organs, it leaves waste products behind to be disposed of through bladder and bowels. Last week Dean MacNider, a sandy-haired man of medium height and 56 years, delivered the second Chandler memorial lecture at Manhattan's Columbia University, proclaimed that, according to what he has seen in livers and kidneys, disease seems to be a beneficial burden on mankind...
...watched," he later wrote, "I began to wonder how the world must appear to a ladybug: what the sensation would be if my six feet of height dwindled down and down until I was hardly a quarter of an inch long; if I shrank to a thousandth, a ten-thousandth ... a millionth of my present bulk. Like Alice, I began to feel I was 'shutting up like a telescope...
Central character of the novel is Napoleon. Heroine is his Polish mistress, 20-year-old, blonde, serious-minded Marie Walewska. By rubberizing history, pseudonymous English Author Pilgrim contrives a cinematic tale based on the ten months which marked the height of Napoleon's career, the beginning of his skid toward Waterloo as a result of his Spanish campaign...
...cubes, shower, hot and cold running water. Refinements in some 1937 trailers include: chromium-plated bath tubs; porcelain vapor stoves; writing desks; radios; roomy wardrobes; fireplaces. But a trailer is still a trailer, confined by restrictions of various states to a maximum length of about 22 ft., width and height around 7 ft. A "two-room cottage" and a "five-room efficiency" trailer are both bound to be within these measurements. At night the rooms are used for sleeping, by day become dinettes, living rooms, etc. At slight additional expense awnings and folding chairs make a front porch...