Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events; B. B. Smith IG.Ed., former Oxford vaulter who has been practicing with the track squad on Soldiers Field during the season, tied for first place with H. M. Howe '34, who was aided with a two-foot handicap; a 4-inch booster gave G. W. Larsen 2G a height of 6 ft., 1 1-2 in. in the high jump...
...Province, and Lieut. Felipe Valle and Corporal Jose Heredia were responsible for the assassination of 44 political prisoners at Santiago in recent months. Soldiers saved the life of Corporal Heredia from a riotous mob. Lieutenant Valle either committed suicide or was murdered. He left a note which approaches the height of understatement for a 44-fold assassin: "In a moment of weakness I have done things I am ashamed...
Surprise? Asked whether or not Pynchon's failure was a surprise, last week Wall Streeters were hard put for an answer. As long ago as last September when tides of rumor were at a height, many things were said about the condition of Pynchon & Co. Widely known was the fact that Chase National Bank, perhaps assisted by another institution, had seen the firm through heavy trouble with loans estimated at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Early last week the old rumor again leapt forth. Heavy selling came into those securities of which Pynchon...
Once described as "a bitter cynic who etches plates with the acid of his own bile," Will Dyson is personally the height of amiability. He beamed last week at a group of reporters (female...
Demands for his protection brought forth numerous writers who pointed out that while kookaburra had been observed to seize a snake in his beak, fly with it to a great height and drop it,* there was no certainty the snake was a live one or that this was kooka's method of snakassination or that kooka was doing anything but playing...