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Word: heights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Wesley Fesler is depending on the speed and agility of his quintet to counteract the height of the Engineers and to give the Crimson revenge for the 29 to 24 defeat suffered at the hands of its downstream neighbors last year in the opener...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: Four Sophomores Start as Basketball Schedule Begins With Tech Tonight | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...team is far better offensively than defensively, being hampered in its back-board work by its lack of height. But it will be helped by the fact that the game is on the home floor, a good bit longer than Hangar Gym, on which the Tech quintet is used to playing...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: Four Sophomores Start as Basketball Schedule Begins With Tech Tonight | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

...practically straight down. Since turbulent winds tumble tiny snow crystals in all directions, thus dispersing the light, the brightest pillars are seen only on calm nights. A pillar is always the same color as that of the light at its base: the pillars above neon lights are red. The height of the halo is proportional to the strength of the light source. Canadian weathermen have "measured" pillars 1,100 feet tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pillars of Fire | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came in time to resemble second-hand book stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Many another claim to fame has Financier Prince. Among them: he boasts that at various times he has owned 46 different railroads, that he has built four, that at the height of his operations he was good for $20,000,000 personal credit; he is reported to have refused $50,000,000 for his Chicago holdings, and to have been one of the few to liquidate before the 1929 crash; his son, Norman Prince (strictly forbidden to fly by F. H.) was a leader in organizing the famed Lafayette Escadrille, was killed in action; in 1934, he bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Deny That Rumor! | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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