Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college basketball race, one team led all the rest past the halfway mark. Top-rated Kentucky last week trampled a good Notre Dame team 60-to-30, for its 20th win. Kentucky's five, who are tall, speedy and accurate, had lost only once-to Oklahoma A. & M. Also among the nation's best: unbeaten Seton Hall (South Orange, N. J.), Alabama and West Virginia; firehouse Rhode Island State (won 11; lost 1); Oregon State (19-2). Illinois' Whiz Kids (TIME, Dec. 23), a flop at the season's start, were now in the running with...
...special convention of the diocese last week, the 1,000-odd clerical and lay delegates reached an obvious compromise. As new Bishop of New York they elected tall, cigaret-smoking Rt. Rev. Charles Kendall Gilbert, suffragan* bishop under Bishop Manning for the past 16 years. Bishop Gilbert knows his big, heterogeneous flock inside out, has maintained an average of 2,200 confirmations a year since becoming suffragan bishop. His chief drawback as a candidate was, paradoxically, a major factor in getting him elected. Bishop Gilbert is 68-which gives him only 3½ years in office before compulsory retirement...
Starting the season impressively with a victory in a practice game with Andover and going on to subdue Exeter 50 to 34, the tall Yardlings maintained their winning streak through four games until the powerful Brown aggregation eked out a 46 to 45 victory of January...
Starting the season impressively with a victory in a practice game with Andover and going on to subdue Exeter 50 to 34, the tall Yardlings maintained their winning streak through four games until the powerful Brown aggregation eked out a 46 to 45 victory on January...
...they have found 1,500 objects: gold and silver jewelry, carved signets, artistic glassware and pottery. Here a considerable city must have flourished, perhaps 3,000 years ago. Its inhabitants, to judge from skeletons found on the site, were strapping fellows well over six feet tall. But who they were and what happened to them the Soviet diggers have not decided, and they have published no details...