Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Stassen bayed excitedly on Speculator Ed Pauley's trail last week, he ran smack into Maryland's lank-cheeked Senator Millard Tydings. Drawing himself up to his full height before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, Senator Tydings demanded: "Have you any evidence of any person in Government who has given any inside information to any speculator in any market?" Stassen's answer was a weak "No." He said he was "relying on the pattern of operations rather than any specific evidence...
...same story in the high jump, where Crimson freshman Dick Barwise will compete. Barwise, whose father will be in charge of the high jump tonight, has negotiated six feet three inches, the same height his rather cleared at Brown. Barwise the younger will try to set a family record tonight and he'll have plenty of competition to push him. There will be Dave Albritten, second in the 1936 Olympics, and winner of last year's national A.A.U. high jump with an effort of six feet, six inches; and Irv Mondshein, N.Y.U. handy...
...Height tipped the initial victories into the Freshman's laps, but then came B.C. Yardling long shots went wild, and long, lumbering legs were not enough to smuggle the quintet under the tight opponent's defense. A sorry lack of rush in the freshman offense became obvious in this tearful Garden debut...
Foul! In Cambridge, Mass., a would-be policeman flunked his physical when examiners found that he had raised his height to the required 5 ft. 6 in. by plastering his long hair back over half a coconut shell...
...regard to controlling the backboards, the team with the most height usually gets the majority of the rebounds; but to get enough of them to term it control, a five must have at least two men of Elmore Morgenthaler's proportions. To be sure, Bill Prior at six-foot-five is no midget, but then almost every good basketball team in the country has a similarly linear man holding down the pivot slot. For example, Columbia's Walt Budko matches Prior's height inch for inch, and the centers in the other half of the Arena double-header--Providence against...