Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Discoverers, 500 years earlier a civil servant named Su Sung had built a remarkably accurate astronomical clock for his Emperor. But when a new ruler was crowned in 1094, officials, according to custom, decreed that his predecessor's calendar had been faulty. Su Sung's 30-ft.-tall "heavenly clockwork" was abandoned. By the 17th century, it was a legend known to only a few scholars...
...incident, Asamoah says, is indicative of a lack of racial sensitivity among officers on the force. "They assume we all look alike," says Asamoah. "Tall, Black, that's anybody...
...does it matter that Jordan Ellenberg is tall? Why does it matter that Lauren Gwin wears black? Taken in the wrong context, many of your personal descriptions could be taken as racist, sexist and generally intolerant trash. If you had any reasons for printing this stuff, you should have explained yourselves...
There is something humorous about this notion that our illustrious Vice President has emphasized. But your presentations are anything but humorous. Reading that Jordan Ellenberg is tall and somewhat goofy does not exactly make me break out into uncontrolled laughter. Reading that Malcolm Heineske dresses like a candidate is not on the par of Billy Crystal's or Robin Williams' material...
Since its first appearance at a 1955 Harvard-UMass football game, the eight-foot-tall drum has undergone the yearly wear and tear of sporting events and other band activities without the benefit of any serious repairs--until this summer...