Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rodzinski's musical sterility (to continue a conceit begun by Rodzinski when he described Stokowski's conducting as "sexual") has time & again made the normally oppressive U.S. Rubber Co.'s "Science Talks" over the air seem the height of esthetic cultivation by comparison. Thus my joy was unbounded when Rodzinski "resigned." This joy was snuffed out, however, by the announcement that he would pilot the Chicago Symphony next season...
...Dionisio Polido's cornfield on Feb. 20, 1943, geologists predicted it would soon die down. But it fooled the experts and kept on growing. In its first year, spewing lava, ash and massive "bombs," Paricutin grew 1,290 feet. It is still adding slowly to its present height (1,380 ft). Geologists estimate that it has ejected by now 1,058,220,800 tons of material. The crater, for the moment, is in a quiet phase, with only a dull glow at night and a pillar of smoke...
...week, a wild-shooting Adams quintet was ploughed under by Lowell House in the second game of the afternoon by a lop-sided 47 to 29 figure. Fred Donahue led the Bellboy avalanche with 25 points to cop high scoring honors of the day. Lowell, using its greater height to advantage, had the Gold Coasters boxed up throughout the game...
Pole-vault--Won by P. Harwood (H); second, Brown, (Y); third, O. Torrey. Height...
Cornell's basketball team took advantage of its height, its speed, and the breaks of the game Saturday night, to overcome the Varsity five, 47 to 43, at the Indoor Athletic Building, before a large and excited crowd that saw the Crimson drop out of contention for Ivy League honors...