Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neglect Height Edge...
Coach Berg's aggregation made little use of its height over the smaller opposition. Ed Smith tapped in a few of his 22 points, high score of the evening, from under the basket but more often than not the Bruins outwrestled the Yardling forwards...
...Louis ever had, riotous fans hung crepe on Sam's office door, jumped on the running board of his car to shout insults. Sam's chilly blue eyes never flickered. He crossed up the fans again when he peddled off the great Dizzy Dean at the height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes as he also sold Pierce-Arrows, and the fertile Cardinal "farm system" which Vice President Branch Rickey built for him produced new-model heroes who won nine National League...
...There was poor Herbert George, who, though of medium height, had the look of a Disney dwarf. His deeply lined skin was puckered into thin folds in the apprehensive expression of a chimpanzee, and his features so far departed from the normal that those who met him found themselves looking back again and again to see if they could be as they were remembered, though the total impression was by no means monstrous, merely animal...
Shakespeare's "Henry IV" is a unique work of art--a play never approached in the scope of its form or the range of its emotional appeal. Containing within its tremendous outlines some of the finest comedy in the English language, intensely dramatic historical tragedy, and the height of color and pageantry in words and ideas, the play presents to any group attempting it a rich and complex opportunity...