Word: width
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British press attacked it. More serious was the fact that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was deeply disturbed by it and prepared to express his disapproval to Dulles when the two meet this week in Bangkok. British disapproval of this speech discloses more plainly than ever before the width and depth of U.S.British differences on East Asia policy...
While the snare drums sizzled and the crowd gasped, two girls in tights stood on eight-foot pedestals a stage width apart, one with an end of a wire about her neck, the second holding the other end with her teeth. A man mounted the slack wire, stretched himself out flat-backed and flipped himself over and over. The gymnasts were Germany's famed Goltz Trio, making its successful rounds of the U.S. vaudeville circuit 40 years ago. Last week Christel Goltz, the wire walker's 34-year-old daughter, made her U.S. debut as another kind...
Pickup. A lawnmower-like magnetic "sweeper" to pick up metal scraps from factory floors has been developed by Homer Mfg. Co. of Lima, Ohio. Prices: from $124 to $856, depending on width and intensity of magnets...
...Bavaria and western Austria, rain fell steadily for two weeks. The Inn, Traun, Enns and Ilz Rivers, swollen and heavy with flotsam, emptied into the surging Danube. At points of confluence, Passau and Linz, there was catastrophe. At Linz, in three days, the Danube doubled in width and tripled in depth, forcing 15,000 people to leave their homes. At Passau the river stage was 40 feet, 22 inches higher than the previous record...
...balls into a staked-out, 35-yard circle (Baltusrol's fairways average 35 yards in width) and putting into a three-inch cup (the official U.S.G.A. cups are 4¼ inches in diameter), had honed his game to a wicked keenness. His body showed few signs of age, approximately the same dimensions of 18 years ago: height...