Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breath-taking finish. In Berlin German gymnasts swung, spun and rolled up the impressive winning total of 657,936 points. While the International Basketball Federation, meeting to see what could be done about making the game satisfactory for the 1940 Olympics at Tokyo, vetoed a proposal to limit the height of basketball players to 5 ft. 8 in., agreed on 6 ft. 3 in., the U. S. won the Olympic title, 19-t08 against Canada. Most conspicuous in the gigantic crowds, mostly composed of provincial Germans, who stared at all these doings, was Realmleader Adolf Hitler. Suddenly become an omnivorous...
...Last fortnight a tall waterspout formed off Staten Island, N. Y. played around for ten minutes before vanishing, did no damage. Coast guardsmen estimated its height at 2,000 ft., biggest ever sighted in New York harbor, first of any size since...
Thirty-three years later a settler has cleared a field in the forest, built a log house, and is grazing his cattle among the huge stumps of the white pines. Model No. 3 shows the same hillside in 1830, at the height of rural cultivation in New England: stone walls and white farm houses are everywhere; only a few straggling wood lots remain of the original forest...
Most ironic development in Bass's career came with his spectacular, profitless raids on the dinky little Texas trains that ran from Dallas to Houston. They occurred at the height of the Granger agitation for lower freight rates, when railroads were denounced throughout the West, consequently aroused excitement out of all proportion to their importance as robberies. Afterwards Bass apparently could count on enough support among the farmers to feel sure of hiding places when pursuit grew hot, although his attacks on the railroads had not helped the farmers and scarcely hurt the carriers...
Rising to an unprecedented height of boldness, the pastors concluded: "Our people are trying to break the bond set by God. That is human conceit rising against God. In this connection we must warn the Führer that the adoration frequently bestowed on him is due only to God. Some years ago the Führer objected to having his picture placed on Protestant altars. Today his thoughts are used as a basis not only for political decisions but also for morality and law. He himself is surrounded with the dignity of a priest and even of an intermediary...