Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...energy to be absorbed if we strike an object while running 25 miles an hour is just the same as if we fell from a height of 20.9 feet ... it is possible to survive this impact although it is just about the shock limit for the human body ... we call this quantity . . . one Danger Unit...
Four years later in Hollywood, dragged down by overwork, finished off by pneumonia, 56-year-old Edgar Wallace died at the height of his success. His debts: something over...
...history (TIME, March 9, 1936), celebrated his 21st birthday by giving out interviews, going to a party some friends gave in his honor at Masonic Temple. He is still healthy, still putting on weight, still growing (three-fourths of an inch, eleven pounds in the last six months). Present height: 8 ft. 8½ in. Weight: 491 Ib. When he quits growing, his family plans to build him a "dream house," with ceilings "at least twelve feet high...
...Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James' being the first) is Teddy Wilson's bunch, scheduled to start in late March . . . The height of something is that Doctor Randall, formerly professor of medicine at Columbia University, is joining Red Norvo's band at the Raymor to take over the clarinet chair...
...News's 3,000,000 readers have been profoundly apathetic to these revelations, even when Publisher Patterson gave them front page headlines on rat news at the height of the German pogroms. Reaction of scientists has ranged from cool to openly hostile. When Publisher Patterson tried to talk about his big story to a pretty nurse in his doctor's office she exclaimed: "Oh, rats-we tried that at Johns Hopkins . . . and it can't be done...