Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through any legislation. Sure Democratic gains for the 74th Congress pushed this strength to 69, with belated returns of other Republican losses indicating that it may go above 70. Never before in the history of the U. S. has either the Republican or Democratic Party reached such a dizzy height of political power in the Senate. Significant steps in the 1934 election to that eminence...
...French meteorologist named Teisserenc de Bort sent up sounding balloons with automatic instruments, discovered a calm, cold layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure on the way down. In 1931. Auguste Piccard. pioneer of the sealed gondola, got up almost ten miles. So carried away was he that he made the astounding comparison of cosmic rays to "rain on a tin roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity...
...Deal - for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish mustache. Teachers Collegians flock to his classes. He is a prolific writer, can be counted on for a newsmaking speech at almost every educators' convention. He has taught Education at Yale, Harvard, University of Washington, University of Chicago...
...famous Lampoon elm will be but 25 feet high it was announced today. This statement came as a surprise as it was previously said by Lampooners that the tree would be 75 feet high. Upon investigation it was found that a tree 75 feet in height would completely hide the building from view...
...Yorkers remembered Klemperer for his height, for the flyaway gestures he used when he conducted the old New York Symphony in 1926 and 27. Those visits were brief, were no fair test. Back in Berlin he became director of the Berlin Staatsoper and six years later a martyr. Nazi youths pummeled him. When his contract had four years to run Adolf Hitler repudiated it because...