Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with 36.76 points, Dartmouth captured team honors in that event to keep a clean slate. Because of the exceptionally fast surface on the runway, the jumpers took off from a rope stretched across the chute 50 feet below the platform, and jumps were consequently shorter than if the full length of the take-off had been utilized...
...successful season last year, the Varsity crew was only defeated at the sprint distances once, when a Navy boat crossed the line with a lead of a third of a length, and beat Yale in a record breaking upstream race at New London...
...length deciding that to face John Lewis, the man-eater of the Mine Workers on the stage of the Rialto would only add indignity to misfortune, Bill Green called in reporters. He gave them copies of a 4,000 word defense he was sending to Washington. Denying the treason charge "unqualifiedly and without equivocation," Miner Green spoke over Miner Lewis' head to the rank& file and their pocketbooks. He asked as a union "stockholder" by what authority the U. M. W. board had loaned $2,000,000 to C. I. O., adding: "It is a serious matter to stockholders...
When we come to the large group of French drawings we are at once impressed by the length of a tradition in draughtmanship. Of its several centuries five are represented here. The accomplishment of the sixteenth can be seen in aportrait by Francois Clouet, of the seventeenth in a wash drawing of landscape by Claude. The special character of the eighteenth, in attitude as in drawing is revealed in a series of red crayon studies by Watteau and Fragonard, Boucher and Greuze...
...DUPLICATED BY SCIENTIST on dispatches from Calcutta, but as chemists sifted the reports last week such statements seemed overenthusiastic. Specialists were more impressed by Dr. Baly's opinion that natural photosynthesis is carried out in two steps-the first in blue light of short wave length, the second in red light of long wave length...