Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near future is that of apartment houses and housing projects. What in view of this appeared to be an extremely astute transaction, was announced by Westinghouse last week: the acquisition of old, privately owned A. B. See Elevator Co., third largest in the land and a specialist in medium-height elevator jobs...
Years hence, when John Llewellyn Lewis looks back from a dazzling height or a dark depth at the first week of July 1937, he may well mark it as a turning point in his remarkable career. It was the week in which Public Opinion, veering away from both Labor and Management in sheer irritation with their five-week wrangle on the Steel Front, was summed up by Labor's great friend Franklin Roosevelt in Shakespeare's phrase...
...height of the melee involved about 3,000 students and some 200 strikers, and was witnessed by the Governor of Michigan, who rides daily on the campus. He dissuaded a group of R O. T. C. cavalrymen from mounting horses, riding down the invaders...
...makes clear . . . that art in America is now a sturdy growth, like an elm tree which spreads its roots slowly but far, and eventually reaches great lasting solidity and height...
...Haven, 1871) and bred (graduated 1895), he married a New Haven girl, got his first job as editor of the New Haven Morning News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life of Andrew Carnegie, The Lees...