Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing stragglers on their way to nine o'clock classes. Suddenly she squealed with childish delight, and then quickly stifled her cry for fear of being heard and seen. Hunching her shoulders and crouching like an adventurous puppy waiting to pounce upon a mouse, she cautiously watched a tall, scrawny human being ambulate down the side-walk toward her. Indeed, the prospective victim-- for victim she intended him to be--was worthy of attack; he had the proverbial look of a worried professor, vacantly intellectual, as he stared glumly at the concrete pacing. And his grey felt hat, the object...
Measuring Goliath's height in feet and inches had never occurred to me, so when I read in your March 1 issue that Goliath was 9 ft. 9 in. tall, I immediately desired to know where you obtained this exact information...
After a thorough and exhaustive search of various Bibles, Bible dictionaries, abridged and unabridged dictionaries, the works of Josephus, The Bible Concordance, etc., I found that Goliath could have been anywhere between 6 ft. 6 in. and 11 ft. 4½ in. tall. His brass breastplate weighed between 156 and 312 lb. His iron spear tip weighed about...
...Gigolos, a Hollywood branch to provde escorts for bored spinsters and tired business girls will be opened soon. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton head the list of Social Registerites with 70 men, while Stanford and U.S.C. have only 23 between them. All men are at least five feet, ten inches tall...
...Tall, ruddy, white-haired at 48, President Trane is "Rube" to all La Crosse. In addition to his workers' THANK YOU, he got an 8-ft. floral valentine from the Trane Employes' Club as "The Merry Old Chief." An engineer by training, he owns 49% of his company's stock, his wife another...