Word: width
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finer tribute has ever been offered than Memorial Hall, by width Harvard University perpetuates the memory of these of its sons who gave their lives for their country during the Civil War. No more beautiful tribute could be conceived than the memorial which appears in the University church, to these who later have their lives for their country...
...laws. The shochet is a man of Hebrew learning, well-versed in Talmud and the laws. His is an honorable profession. He takes a rigid examination before competent authority in all the laws of shechitah and trefah. The length of the shochet's knife must be twice the width of the throat to be cut, must be razor-sharp and unnicked. Before slaughtering, the shochet carefully says: "Blessed are Thou . . . who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us concerning slaughtering." If many animals are being killed at the same time, one blessing is enough. After the blessing, there...
...ahead. With 100 metres to go, it was 3 ft. in front of California. Coxswain Norrie Graham of California backed his stroke up to 44. The 3 ft. grew slowly narrower. Twenty-five yards from the finish, it was 1 ft. At the finish, California was ahead, by the width of a hand. Canada's Leander crew was 8 ft. behind Italy, England was fourth by 6 ft. more. A crowd of 95,000 saw the Olympic Torch extinguished, the 1936 Olympic Games promised to Berlin in the ceremonies that closed the most successful modern Olympiad on record. Final...
...weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their boat all day. On the fourth day the skies cleared. Across the width of Goose Island the three men wriggled on their stomachs, waited uncomfortable hours within sight of some big, flat rocks. Finally, out of the water clambered a single big bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered...
...strongest winds over the basin are from the northwest, and owing to the width of the basin these winds frequently make the water so rough that the waves rebound from the wall to a considerable distance. This condition has been found very unsatisfactory by boating and rowing interests, and these individuals and associations have been strongly desirous of an improvement in the basin as regards rowing conditions. The treatment of the new shoreline is expected to break up the waves and materially decrease the cross-chop existing at present...