Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genuinely religious as Elliott Speer was when he entered the drinking, carousing Princeton of Scott Fitzgerald was to be cynically labeled a "Christer." At that time his Princetonian father. Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, world-traveled senior secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, was at the height of his fame as the most powerfully emotional preacher of his day. Classmates who met Elliott Speer five years out of college found an affable young man no less religious but well-geared to his own generation. Northfield quickly felt his liberalizing touch. He allowed his boys to smoke, to have parties...
...Lilley's references to Professor Merriman's height and voice are not only insulting; they are examples of loose thinking. Hot water in Adams House has nothing to do with hot water in Eliot House, and neither of them have anything to do with Professor Merriman. I happen to have heard Mr. Lilley's voice myself, and recall, from the experience, nothing which would justify him in criticizing Mr. Merriman's voice. Mr. Lilley is obviously prejudiced. I assume that his application for admission to Eliot House was once rejected...
Life Begins at 8:40 (words & music by Ira Gershwin, E. Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen; Shuberts, producers). Until recently a look at the program was unnecessary to identify Shubert revues. Their hallmark was stage furnishings which suggested nothing so much as Eighth Avenue second-hand shops. The height of scenic imagination was usually a gauze drop behind which tottered in semidarkness a troupe of half-naked show girls. The decor of Life Begins at 8:40, turned out by the youngest and best man in the business, is no more like that of typical Shubert offerings than chicken salad...
...Prince and Princess put off their U. S. tour four months, they would have found the height of the Washington Monument unchanged but its appearance vastly improved. Last week a vine of steel scaffolding began to creep up the shaft's sides. When the scaffolding reaches the top workmen will scramble up, remove dirt, soot, dust, fill in chinks, bathe the entire monument in soap and water until it looks as clean as it did on Dec. 6, 1884 when its aluminum tip was finally set into place. Cost of the monument's first bath...
...horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably above him. The Ramapo, its stern at the base of the wave behind, was found to be tilted up at an angle 11 ° 50'. Using this angle and the distance from bridge to stern the wave-height was computed by trigonometry, and like computations were made from other observers' measurements. The results, in good agreement, put the wave height from trough to crest...