Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johannesburg and Pretoria worked feverishly, decorating their cities with colored lights and bunting. Striking bakers decided to go back to work in honor of the visit, with the threat to strike again when the King had gone home. In Cape Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs a sensible public-relations department. The King...
...Matrosov's amazing changes. The foreman "found that much of a cutter's time was lost in carrying leather to the cutting machine. ... He figured out that this could be done by an auxiliary worker. . . ." Also the "needle-witted Mr. Matrosov" had noticed that workers of various heights stood on small steps before their machines; some had to bend, while others stood on tiptoe. "After thinking awhile, Mr. Matrosov figured out that the height of the steps could be adjusted to the height of the man. . , . A number of other such marvelous improvements helped...
...makes most of his points on a leaping, twisting shot from a pivot post. Ambidextrous, he has a knack of changing the ball from one hand to another at the last second and getting it in the clear without a bit of lost motion. His height (6 ft. 5 in.), long arms and springy legs all help. But his prize asset is a big, soft hand with long fingers that enables him to shoot a "soft" ball; it seems to float lazily from his fingertips, either drops clean or drowzes tantalizingly on the basket rim, then falls...
High-jump--Tie for first between G. Harrigan (H), and Keyes (Y); third, Johnson (Y). Height...
Polevault--Won by Harwood (H); tie for second among Calabrese (H.C.), Johnston (H), and Torrey (H). Height--13 feet...