Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immediately she drove him to a corner in the forefront of the cage, where he was obliged to stand on his hind legs and to remain so standing, while she excitedly brought pieces of hay, and, literally, walled him in. The hay was patted in place, to the full height of the cage, so that she might not see him. She herself was totally without bedding ultimately. The state of siege lasted for some six or seven hours, when a truce was apparently arranged...
Ernest A. Gray '37, sophomore center, was all over the floor again, and in the intervals when he was on his feet managed to slip in five points. On the defense his height and simian arms were potent stumbling-blocks for the Engineers, and his skill under the back-board prevented many enemy tallies...
...game was marked by spurts of capable play alternating with much very mediocre performance. Jim Grady led the Crimson team in scoring with six baskets and a free throw, closely followed by Bill Gray, who garnered six goals from the floor after replacing Captain Dick Boys. Gray's height was of great assistance to the Harvard team, although it seemed to be used about equally in the horizontal and vertical planes...
...well-informed circles the Conservative Party, seeing its "National Government" majority menaced by Labor's landslide gains in municipal elections (TIME, Nov. 12), was reported to have settled on the following strategy: Between now and the Royal Jubilee next spring when patriotic fervor will be at its height, the Government will work up an impressive war scare and spring a general election just after the Jubilee, on the well-tested theory that "the British public, when frightened, always votes Conservative...
...format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really do interest him. And misprints-especially when he has read the proofs himself-give him neuralgia and even worse afflictions. . . . Medium height, medium looks, medium clothes, somewhat reddish hair, and lively eyes. If I had seen him in a motorbus I should never have said, 'A remarkable chap...