Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Below stairs, Royal scullery, parlor and chamber maids made no secret of their voting intentions as they hustled into bonnet and wrap, groped in a body out the fogbound back gate. Two footmen, the Palace womenfolk considered, were the only possible waverers. They had expressed Socialist opinions at the height of a servants' ball last year, but not since. One of these very footmen brought to the Royal study the latest newspapers for which George V repeatedly buzzed. Compared to His Majesty, Her Majesty is no reader in times of crisis. Queen Mary preferred to hear what was happening...
...shipped to the Pacific on a whaler, at 21 became its captain. Shrewd, he recognized a fortune lay in selling whale oil, not in getting it. He prospered as a merchant in New Bedford, had a political squabble, sold his property cheap, settled in New York. At the height of his business career he was one of the 28 brokers of the New York Exchange Board which later became the New York Stock Exchange. He controlled a potent shipping firm of Fish & Grinnell which had its beginnings in the attempt of Preserved Fish III to advance his whale oil market...
...London, Dr. Hans von Haberer of Cologne (all three were made honorary fellows of the College) and the officers of the College. It was a happy evening for Dr. Squier. That afternoon the College had elected him its next president. He is just about as much smaller in height and build than President Kanavel, as President Kanavel is smaller than retired President Miller...
...Francisco. Heads of shipping companies controlling twelve fleets, 181 vessels with 1.500.000 gross tons, last week were holding secret meetings in San Francisco. Present were Capt. Robert Dollar and his son President R. Stanley Dollar of Dollar Lines whose entrance into intercoastal shipping caused friction which reached its height when the Dollars began to bid for U. S. Lines (TIME, Aug. 24). Present too were Kermit Roosevelt and John M. Franklin, representing Roosevelt-International Mercantile Marine Lines. Apparently with much to say to the shipping men, but with nothing to say to the Press, rich & potent Banker Herbert Fleishhacker weighed...
...Mary Louise Boillin, research assistant at Columbia's Teachers College, last week propounded an accurate formula to figure any woman's proper weight. Height therein is far less important than chest measurements. The formula, which Dr.Boillin calls "the multiple regression equation," she verified by measuring 815 Wellesley girls. It is: 2.5014 times width of hips in cm. + 0.5245 times height in cm. + 4.6024 times depth of chest in cm. + 0.8954 times biacromial width* in cm. + 2.8644 times chest width in cm. - 209.2255 = proper weight in pounds for the particular woman...