Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Present' button." Thousands of voters push. This sudden mass consumption of extra current causes the recording line on the power house and studio charts to veer almost at right angles, forming a needle-like peak. Since each push-button consumes a measured amount of current, the height of this peak can at once be translated into the approximate number of voters. The announcer then asks for a "Yes" ballot, in a few moments more for a "No" ballot. On the charts two smaller peaks (whose combined height should equal that of the "Present" peak) reveal the size...
...Herbert H. Lehman resigned when he became Governor of New York. Robert attended Mercersburg Academy, did not go to college. In 1922 he shipped as a seaman on the S. S. St. Paul in a pair of white linen knickerbockers with $5 in cash. Landing in Hamburg at the height of the inflation, he changed his $5 for 115,000 marks, toured Germany on it, returned to the U. S. on the same ship and left in a tantrum when his discharge card did not give him as high a rating as he thought he deserved. Later he went abroad...
...first time in many years an important college function would pass without the grace of his genial presence. A moment before the speech was to begin a slight rustling was heard on the edge of the crowd and those who watched closely saw detecting at its very height. The worthy Colonel emerged most silently from the bushes, sneaked up to the statue and peered under the veil. Apparently disappointed he dropped it back into place and crept off. The search goes...
...Arthur L. Endicott has been the symbol of an impersonal and mechanical bureaucracy, a vague object for resentment about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white collar, has seemed a character out of Harvard's past. Like his ancestor, the Puritan governor, Arthur Endicott has ruled his domain with an iron hand little softened by words of tact. The very air of an incongruously well-appointed Lehman Hall, has been chilled and rarified...
Pole vault--Won by Dubiel (H). Tie for second between Pettingell (E), and Campbell (E). Height--12ft. 3in. (New cage record...