Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's hand. The King passed over the seals of office and the keys of the Prime Minister's dispatch box. 'Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose to his feet. By this brief ceremony he had reached the top rung of Britain's political ladder, a height attained neither by his father Joseph nor his more-publicized late half-brother Sir Austen...
Reason for all this fuss, aside from California's surpassing exuberance, was that the bridge was the world's greatest by practically every measurement-length of span, height, difficulty of achievement. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was conceived 20 years ago by Engineer Joseph Baermann ("Colossus of Roads'') Strauss and finally completed at a cost of eleven lives...
Robert Wadlow, 19, of Alton, Ill. agreed to promote Valspar varnish, by pouring, in advertisements, a teakettle of boiling water from his height of 8 ft. 7 in. upon a shining Valsparred table...
High Jump: won by George Cushman '37 (K), second Joseph Brayton '39 (W) tied with Morria Manker (A), fourth Alexander Northrop '38 (D) tied with William F. Sullivan (Lew), Height 5 foot 4 inches...
Pole Vault: won by Morris Manker '38 (A), Otis Minot '38 (E) and John Jones, Jr. '38 (A), (all Lied), fourth, Sydney Cobb '38 (E). Height 9 feet 6 inches...