Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mike Michelman and Gill Aertsen of Harvard both jumped 5 ft. 9 in. for second and third place in the high jump. Likewise Fred MacIsaac and Win Pettingell cleared the same height, 13 ft. to gain second and third in the pole vault. John Herrick of the Crimson established a new record in the discus throw...
...other spot landing, the pilot tries to land at the bull's-eye of a large circle. He may approach in any manner he pleases but must throttle his engine back when he reaches the height of 500 feet. In both landings, the motor must idle after the pilot has reached the designated altitude in order that the conditions simulate a dead-stick landing...
...their present boating they weigh a shade over 180, and only one man in the boat is under 6:03 in height. They are remarkably matched in height, three being 6:04, four 6:03 and one an even 6 feet...
Progressive schools in Czechoslovakia, like those in the U. S., stress moppets' health (see cut), and teach children informally: let them learn arithmetic by keeping records of their height and weight; teach them reading by the "global method" (to recognize whole words instead of plodding through them letter by letter...
Peace. Meanwhile the man who is generally regarded as the world's greatest living scientist lives placidly in a white frame house on Princeton's Mercer Street. He chose it for two dimensions, the height of its ceilings and the length of its flower garden in the back. He lives there with Margot, his late wife's daughter by a previous marriage, and his secretary, Fraulein Helen Dukas, who since Frau Einstein's death last year has looked after his bank account, his clothes and other things which to him are equally trivial. In the morning...