Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the greyhound incident Hunt Diederich's reputation blossomed quickly. Followed a series of commissions for animal sculpture of all sorts from fire screens to weather vanes. His wrought-iron silhouets of horses and riders became world-known. At the height of his popularity eight years ago Hunt Diederich fell off a scaffolding in Germany, smashed his right leg. It became infected. Doctors wished to amputate but Sculptor Diederich stubbornly refused to let them, traveled in agony from one hospital to another. Few months ago the first real progress came with the application of sterile maggots to the open...
Chief event of the day was the appearance towards the end of the afternoon, of papa coon, mama, and sonny (height 3 feet 6 1/2 inches. The latter was dubbed Harvard's star fullback...
...combination low and high hurdle and is designed to obviate the use of two different sets of hurdles in track meets. The top bar is placed into the sides of the hurdle on a pair of runners so that it can be raised or lowered to the desired height just as one raises a window...
Like the interviewer's Radcliffe Freshman he's medium height and blonde though somewhat less heavy and less energetic looking...
...wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear his name. At the height of his fame a young physician named Sigmund Freud went to study with him, and under his tutelage and encouragement pursued the researches that eventually flowered in Freudian psychoanalysis...