Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atop a pinnacle of Wall Street power in 1930 sat Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of the governing board of Chase National Bank, world's largest. Trailing down from this august height was a vast hierarchy of 85 directors, 80 vice presidents, 72 second vice presidents, a cashier and 107 assistants, two comptrollers and six assistants, 41 assistant trust officers, 31 assistant managers and some 8,000 employes. The president of Chase Bank held a relatively "minor" job, being outranked not only by Mr. Wiggin but also by the chairman of the executive committee and the chairman and vice chairman...
...with a fresh start, the Harvard offense began to show itself, and during the remainder of the half, both teams netted ten points each, making the score 19-10. The blue team had the overwhelming advantage of a giant center, Ned Wilson, 6 feet seven inches in height, who always got the tip off and set the Yale plays in action...
...ANGELES TIMES OF DEC. 3 WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE ONE OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED STOP WAS NEVER ORDERED ARRESTED STOP THERE WAS NO BALCONY AND I WAS IN A ROOM SEVEN STORIES FROM THE GROUND WITH AN IRON RAILING EXTENDING TO MY CHEST HEIGHT STOP YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE ACCEPTED HEARSAY EVIDENCE WHEN HE WIRED YOU I COMMITTED A NUISANCE STOP I WAS CLOTHED HAD NO BLANKET AROUND ME AND DID NOT COMMIT ANY NUISANCE EXCEPT YELL TO THE CROWD BELOW IN A CHIDING MANNER STOP...
...height of the outbreak Spanish Fascist José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of the late Dictator, offered the Government 1,500 trained men to help suppress it. Though politely declined, Spanish wiseacres found that offer the most significant in the entire affray. Rumor would not down that the entire uprising was backed not by Radicals but by Royalists and Fascists in an effort to throw the acknowledged Rightist swing of Spanish voters behind an open dictatorship...
...meteor was unusual in that it was composed of more than one body, all of which moved together, burning in the atmosphere from a height of 100 miles above the earth until it became extinguished at an altitude of 30 miles...