Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...height of the uproar, with both sides deadlocked, the federal gunboat Progresso steamed into the harbor and furiously pumped shells in the direction of the rebel lines...
...glider is yanked into a 10 to 15 m. p. h. wind, which supplies lift. Thereafter it is the pilot's job to jockey his plane upon the air currents ascending over the rolling terrain. Air usually rises to twice the height of an obstruction. If the pilot can get above a cloud he has an easy time. Wind always rushes up over the edge of a cloud. And the up-moving air is what the glider pilot wants...
...indication of origin shall be conspicuously and durably marked in ink on the shell of each imported egg in letters not less than two millimetres in height...
...Lucas County Children's Home, he is called "Uncle Walt" by its young inmates. Foods and their preparation fascinate him. He has an almost feminine passion for cooking. He refuses to eat a strawberry that has touched water. A Harvard graduate, he is 60, below medium height, dark of hair, slow to wrath...
...under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows and necessitating window bars for safety...