Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...height of his fame, he went to Eldorado Springs, Colo, to walk a steel cable which a resort owner, Frank Fowler, had strung across South Boulder Canyon. The cable was 635 ft. long and 582 ft. above a foaming torrent. As fourteen thousand watched, the professor walked the dizzy wire with ease, pausing in mid-passage to stand on his head...
...Markos looks so unlike the published photographs of him," wrote Bigart, "that I failed to recognize him. The spreading moustache which he affected two years ago has been closely cropped. [At 41] he is solidly built and of medium height. His eyes are closely set and deeply lined . . . The brown hair under his partisan cap was long and bushy; rebellious strands kept sliding down his forehead. His mouth is broad and expressive. He has the gift of a quick and charming smile that can alter instantly a face which, in repose, seems hard, impatient, pitiless...
Grocery Bills. A hearty and likable woman, Mrs. Coolidge entertains a lot, likes to laugh at jokes on herself-on her height, on her hearing, her habit of dropping her programs, gloves and handbags...
They exchanged some grim statistics: the height and weight of traditionally healthy Finnish children are 10% to 15% below prewar average; the average weight of Yugoslav children is down 24%. In Italy alone, 2,000,000 children need extra rations, 220,000 have eye-destroying trachoma. Only 30% of Austria's children can be considered healthy; in Poland, 30% of the children under seven have rickets; 90% of Rumanian children have bad teeth. Tuberculosis, hunger's fellow traveler, is up everywhere: 1% of Europe's children have active tuberculosis, two-thirds of them are tuberculin positives. Among...
There were booths and sideshows on Cambridge Common; one of these in 1797 featured a talking elephant that was reputed also to be able to drink thirty bottles of porter at a sitting. The visitors and the graduating seniors came in the height of the day's fashion--embroidered waistcoats, peach-blossom coats, and powdered wigs--,and one elderly lady sat up all night in her elbow chair before the 1758 Commencement in order not to disturb the arrangement of her hair...