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Word: heights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Truman at guard is the only other veteran, because Sophomores Bob Person and Tank Wilson have ousted Seniors Giles MacEwen and Bill Glatfelder from the center and guard jobs respectively. The Bears will present a tall crew tonight, and again the Feslermen will have to operate under a height disadvantage. The game is scheduled to get under way at about 8:45 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feslermen After Second Victory in Tilt With Brown | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...Colorado River Aqueduct will lift a river higher than any river has ever been lifted before. It will divert a billion gallons a day of the copious Colorado River and lift that water 1,600 ft.-a small mountain's height - and drop it down again 340 miles from where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Waterboys | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...even attempted to map and which is in the form of a strip of land 40 miles wide and extending for 125 miles along the Pacific coast. Located in the center of the Chugach Range about 50 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Saint Agnes pierces the clouds to a height of 13,250 feet above sea level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Washburn Tells of Alaskan Exploits Before Capacity Crowd at Institute | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

Smarting from the 29 to 24 setback received at the hands of M.I.T. in Hangar Gym, the Feslermen will be out to gain a victory over the strong Huskie quintet. In an effort to insert more height into the lineup, Sam White will get the starting assignment at guard as Captain Lupe Lupien's running mate. Fred Beckel will be moved up to forward, a position which he played last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pucksters Playing Junior Olympics in Opener---Feslermen Oppose Huskies | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Ceferino Garcia challenged Henry Armstrong for his welterweight crown. Many of the 15,000 spectators expected the Filipino, 13 pounds heavier, with an advantage in height and reach also, to land just one sound bolo punch, and the onetime triple champion, who had recently abandoned his featherweight crown, would have only one crown left. But Little Man Armstrong, looking like a pygmy, showed them that his famed strategy of getting in close and pounding away with both fists-fast, furiously and from all angles-is hard to solve, harder to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Man | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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