Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with hope that the butchers of Engelbert Dollfuss would succeed in upsetting the Austrian Government. When they were clapped into jail Adolf Hitler had to work fast. Unfortunately the German Chancellor's duly appointed Inspector General for Austria, blustering Theodor Habicht, had said while broadcasting from Munich at the height of the excitement that Dollfuss' slayers were "returning" to Germany. That slip caused Chancellor Hitler to fire Herr Habicht from...
...turned vegetarian, became cowlike and contented. Lured in time's nick from this pitiable state by a fat, juicy steak, he "saw the world again as it is, not as it should be," called out the firing squad to execute a fresh batch of enemies. At the height of his power Dictator Rico mysteriously disappeared, leaving his country once more a prey to real life...
...Everest was named for Sir George Everest who measured its height by trigonometry in 1841. At that time, and for decades thereafter, Tibet was almost as remote from the world as Mars, and to this day its Buddhist priests look on Everest as the abode of potent gods. Not until 1920 was permission for a climb obtained from the Dalai Lama, religious and temporal monarch who ruled the bleak uplands from Lhasa. The first expedition spotted the rock shoulder zig-zagging down from the peak to the saddle which was later called the North Col, but wasted its time...
...girl who occasionally poses for Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size 13 dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen and cut-out a more penetrating photographic exposure was given to the thick part...
From noon until midnight today the Class Day spread and party will provide entertainment for both graduates and undergraduates. Starting with lunch and including the Class Day exercises in the Stadium, which will be followed by the Yale baseball game, festivities, will reach their height with a supper, dance, and concert given in the Houses...