Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Putting Temple on the educational map has been the work of Dr. Conwell's successor, tall, bronzed Charles Ezra Beury (pronounced "Beery"). Like his neighbor. Dr. Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Beury was a banker before he became a college president. A son of the rich, coal-operating Beurys for whom Beury, W. Va., is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin...
...Majesty in a British shipyard in 1917. "Find that boy!" ordered London editors last week. Soon John Michael Cassidy was found. He turned out to have been in 1917 not the child he looks in the picture but a 16-year-old runt. Now 4 ft. 6 in. tall, nearly toothless, prematurely aged and jobless for most of the past 14 years. John Michael Cassidy muttered that on Britain's dole a man does not get enough to marry and have children. "I love kids," added the King's Runt wistfully. "So did King George...
...could not bear to go near a sick or suffering person. At the monastery he did better. Breeders already knew that the characteristics of offspring were not simple mixtures of parental features, but they did not know why. Working with garden peas, Mendel found that when he crossed a tall pea with a dwarf, all the first generation were tall. In the second generation (self-fertilized) there were three times as many tall plants as dwarfs, and none of intermediate stature. From this and a mass of other results which made sense when fitted together, the monk concluded that characters...
...because it was supposed to be the finest winter sports resort in Germany. Since then, Germany's Olympic Committee has spent 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) building headquarters for officials, a mile bobsled run, an artificial ice rink, a huge ski stadium, a ski jump so tall it makes the town's old one look like a mink-slide. All these preparations were keyed to the widespread German belief that the 11th Olympiad, which reaches its climax next summer in Berlin, was to be a rare chance to win back some of the international goodwill lost...
...monkey, escaping Tuesday, six times climbed up to the top of the Medical School powerhouse and when its lashing tall was almost secured by a waiting posse on the cornice, it turned and jumped to a dormer six and a half stories below...