Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eastern boundary of Cleveland, conspicuously painted with glistening aluminum, stands one of the strangest hospitals on earth. The main building is a steel sphere 64 ft. in diameter, the height of a five-story apartment house. At the base, like garden slugs under a puff ball, are two horizontal steel tanks the size of bungalows. All three structures are built to withstand the force of compressed air in which Dr. Orval James Cunningham, the designer, has his patients live...
...letters received by the Observatory in answer to a newspaper and radio appeal on Wednesday and Thursday, September 26 and 27, yield the following statistics: the particles, visible for about 75 miles almost due north to south, was in the air approximately 2 seconds, and dropped from a height of 52 miles to one of 15 miles before disintegrating; the time of flight was between 2.26 o'clock and 2.27 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time...
...last week. There she shook hands with some 500 persons who had come to be her guests at another oldtime Berkshire Festival. The guests were either established musicians or else socially important neighbors from Lenox, Stockbridge, Lee. For a few old friends the hostess stooped from her height (6 ft. 1 in.), endeavored to hear their greetings through the mother-of-pearl earphone she wore clasped to her head. But the guests had plenty to hear because, with her customary generosity, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge* had provided five rich programs of her own chosen chamber music...
November 26: Edward M. Bassett. "Limiting the Height of Buildings Through Zoning." Mr. Bassett is a member of the New York Bar. Was a member of the commission which framed the original New York zoning ordinance. Has been a legal adviser on zoning questions of communities all over the United States...
When the supplies had been carried to a height of 6,300 feet, Washburn and Holcombe, whose places in the climbing party had been taken by Lincoln Washburn and Dow, started up the mountain, leaving the base camp at 8 o'clock on the night of July 14th. The high camp was reached at 9 o'clock the next morning and the day was spent in resting. The morning of the 16th at midnight the whole packing party, plus Washburn and Holcombe, started from the high camp and by 8 o'clock they had reached the base...