Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American, but he was also and primarily a musician. His father started him playing the kettledrum when he was 4; later he went abroad to study piano. He worked hard, returned to the U. S. and began to make a name for himself as a pianist. At the height of his Manhattan success Tycoon Rothstein came to Munck with a great idea: to make Manhattan music's acknowledged world capital by building and endowing a Lyceum of Music, with Munck as musical director. After many conferences, many misgivings, Munck let himself be won over by Roth-stein...
...border. The Moth climbed northward up the Kusi River Valley, then carefully wheeled as it approached Nepal. Ahead, across a prodigious frozen ocean of glaciers, crevasses and icy peaks, rose the highest and holiest mountain on earth. Only by trigonometry had man ever measured Mount Everest's vast height (29,140 ft.). Only in his tenacious imagination had he ever scaled...
...remarkably few cancellations and that there has been no surplus of baby chicks in this territory during the banking holiday. . . . I know of n > industry which has experienced such a steady flow of incoming orders through the present difficulties, as our hatcheries. Although the moratorium has struck during the height of the baby chick season, I can introduce you to numer>inn hatcherymen in this district who have more orders on their books (accompanied by a substantial deposit) than they had booked at the same date last year...
...investigate some of the properties of cosmic rays, such as their direction, penetrability, and intensity, which we have not fully determined in our previous two trips. The balloon will ascend to about ten miles. It undoubtedly could go higher, but we can obtain all the results from this height that we need...
Coach Watcher has shifted the line-up back to that of early season, with Hageman at right forward and Reisner at right guard. This was done in an effort to better match the rugged forward line of the Elis, two members of which are over six feet in height. Both of the Blue guards are also over six feet...