Word: heights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...graduate anthropology student, revealed results of his study of measurements of Harvard men, including figures for 400 pairs of fathers and sons-first such comparison thus to be made. Present day Harvard men. the figures show, are on the average eight pounds heavier than their fathers were. Their average height of 5 ft. 10 1/10 in. represents a group increase of one inch over a period of 32 years. Their hips are slimmer, their torsos and shoulders heavier...
Since there were no records available to show the measurements of the mothers of Harvard men, Mr. Bowles discovered data on 501 mothers and their daughters who has attended Wellesley, Vassar, Smith, and Mt. Holyoke. The college daughters average 5 feet 4 8-10 inches in height. They are 1 1-10 inches taller and 7.25 pounds heavier than their mothers. Comparative data seem to indicate that this increase in weight has been going on for the last century. The daughters surpass their mothers in every dimension except breadth of hips, and in this dimension there is a superiority...
...think, but by giant waterfalls, according to an announcement made last week by Dr. William Braid White, acoustic expert for American Steel & Wire Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary). Dr. Braid offered as evidence sound waves photographed this spring at Niagara Falls. The sound of water falling from a great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle C (261 cycles). Wind may moan at 100 cycles, whine as high...
High jump--Won by Milans (D); second, G. W. Kuehn '32 and Moody (D), tied. Height--6 ft., 4 in. (new meet record...
Pole vault--Won by Oscar Sutermeister 32; second, Noyes (D); third, G. F. Bennett '32. Height--13 ft., 1 3-8 in. (new meet record...