Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Circuit Judge John A. Mitchell, 52, of Cookerville. Mister Crump had never even met his candidate. But what difference did that make? Roared Mister Crump: "Everybody says he has a splendid record." Once called to public attention, Judge Mitchell looked like a natural, indeed. He was a mountain man, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and deliberate-something like Cordell Hull, over whose old court he now presided. He had won a D.S.C. in World War I, had served three years as a lieutenant colonel in the Army's legal section in World War II. Most knowing Tennesseans figured...
Writing music (unless you include Tin Pan Alley hits) is no way to get rich quick. So it was news that a tall, gangling musician named Leroy Robertson had got $25,000 for a long-haired orchestra piece. Probably no piece of classical music had ever been so handsomely paid for.* The money Robertson got for his Trilogy would have supported Mozart or Schubert for life...
...starts, coach Bill Barclay will start the same five men who got the nod against Tufts last Saturday night, but McCurdy and Bill Prior, who gave a creditable performance at the pivot post against the Jumbos in his first real chance, are slated for plenty of action against the tall men from Peoria, Illinois...
...Manhattan one night this week, a group of doctors and scientists listened intently as a tall, dark-haired surgeon talked about the biggest subject in medicine: cancer. Dr. Saul P. Lehv of Harlem Hospital was reporting on the first controlled study of a new cancer treatment. In guarded, technical language, he described a series of cases...
...promote this program, N.A.M. chose as its 1948 president Morris Sayre, 62, the tall, mild-looking president of giant Corn Products Refining Co. Like many another top NAMster, Sayre started his career at the bottom. After graduating from the University of Richmond and Lehigh University, Sayre went to work for Corn Products in 1908 as a $75-a-month boiler washer. He climbed the ladder rung by rung and never lost his modesty on the way. He likes to keep his door open to any one of his 5,000 employees who has a complaint or an idea...