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Heavyweight contender Rocky Marciano knocked out Bernie Reynolds with a terrific hight hook to the chin at 2:21 of the third round of their scheduled 10 rounder last night to make that Fair field. Conn boxer his 35th knockout victim in an unbeaten string of 40 fights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 5/13/1952 | See Source »

...Where Hight Was Right. The late John Holliday, founder of the Indianapolis News, once found height spelled hight in one of his editorials. He stormed into the composing room, where the foreman showed him the word spelled that way in his own copy. Barked Holliday: "If that's the way I spelled it, that's correct." It was hight in the News until a new stylebook came out last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cannibalized | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...George Hight Cummings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...Hight now, a campaign in under way to collect money from present subscribers. Many officers are not cooperating quite as whole-heartedly as their might. The year book is a business enterprise. It costs money and the bills incurred in compiling it must be paid. It is true that the price is a little higher than was originally anticipated; but there are fewer copies being printed this time and the staff did not feel that it could sacrifice quality. Hence the total price of printing, engraving, etc. must be divided by a smaller numbers of copies and that can only...

Author: By J.d. Wilson, | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 9/17/1943 | See Source »

Once upon a hight (not quite midnight) as I pondered, if not weak at least weary there came a crashing on my door. Shoving aside change number 34 or was it 14, I staggered to the portal and was asked any, ordered to please produce some pears of wisdom for the SERVICE NEWS. I was weary enough to give in weakly...

Author: By Sally Finlayson, | Title: Creating A ripple | 8/20/1943 | See Source »

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