Word: heights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Right Honorable William Laurens Fisher. Warden of New College, Oxford, will deliver an oration befitting the day. Mr. Fisher is not unknown to Boston and Cambridge audiences, since he has been a lecturer at the Lowell Institute here twice in past years. His address will come at the height of the tercentennial celebration, after a procession of dignitaries from all over the world has marched to a special pavilion which will, it is planned, be erected on the terrace in front of the State House. This pavilion will seat about 4000 people, all of whom will be guests invited...
...Houses will bring a much larger number of men under one roof than there are in the usual Harvard dormitory, and every effort must be made to avoid the atmosphere of regularity and regimentation which is common under such conditions and reaches its height in the army barracks. This can only be done by spending much time and money in the arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form...
...tower was the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Modelled after the Washington Monument, its 32 stories rise 447 ft. 3 in. above street level from a larger square base two stories in height. Last August when Secretary of War James William Good helped dedicate it, it was ecstatically dubbed the "Washington Monument of the Northwest...
Several days later Senator Bingham rose lankily to his full height and spoke in self-defense. He shouted angry charges at the lobby committee, accused it of prejudice, dirty politics, a determination to besmirch his reputation. He insisted his motives were pure, that he had done nothing improper. Rather lamely he accused Senator Elaine, a lobby-hunter, of carrying a capitol policeman (federal paid) to Wisconsin last summer, using him as a chauffeur. This Senator Elaine vehemently denied. Other Senators arose, attacked Bingham without mercy. Senator Norris broadly hinted at a resolution of censure...
...feel that the move is attempting to cover ground which has already been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power to technique...