Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November of 1932, Mr. Homans, then at the height of a brilliant law career with the firm of Hill, Barlow and Homans, returned to his alma mater when he succeeded Jeremiah Smith '92, as a member of the Corporation, a position he has occupied ever since...
...Vagabond's room. It crushes in, and constricts all his senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...
...balcony. Once they got inside there wasn't anybody in sight so they majestically strode into the boxes. The smallest one of the bunch was 6 feet, 3 1-2 inches, weighing 185 pounds, and the poor little usher who came to investigate the rumpus quailed before the towering height of the giants. So they stayed right where they were--in the boxes for forty cents...
...supplemented by other lithographs from the same publication showing the historical and geographical curiosity of the century ushered in by Napoleon's conquests. Bonington, the English youth who spent the last half of the twenty-seven full years of his life in France, raised lithography to a new height, well illustrated by the "Rue du Gros Horloge, Rouen." Gericault's studies of horses form striking foils to the more dramatic lithographs of Delacroix, also represented by two water-colors...
...been paid on the common stock (controlled by Rolls-Royce, Ltd. of England), whereas unpaid cumulative dividends on the preferred now total $78.75 per share. Last week there was no Brewster in Brewster & Co. to be proud of Mr. Inskip's new product. The founder died at the height of his fame as a carriage maker 19 years before Mr. Inskip was born, 38 years before England ever heard of a Rolls-Royce. James Brewster, descendant of William Brewster, Mayflower Pilgrim, was a wagonmaker's apprentice at 16. He moved from Northampton, Mass. to New Haven, began making...