Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...height of the uproar, the school board closed the school temporarily. Last week, with the school in holiday recess, Twinsburg was split down the middle. One group of citizens had formed a Citizens' League, given both Powell and the school board a vote of confidence. Other parents, angered, had lined up the Real Estate Owners Association, had collected 183 signatures calling for dismissal of the board. That was more than 15% of the township's voters-enough to bring their demand into the courts...
...week's end the weather obligingly backed him up; a swirling storm hit the city, and dumped the third-deepest snowfall in history (19.6 in.) on its streets and rooftops. Parry beamed. In one hour, at the height of the storm, 3½ inches fell. The Weather Bureau predictions (unlike those issued before last December's record-breaking 25.8-in. snowfall) had been uncannily accurate, a fact which enabled the city to keep its streets open, its buses running, its sidewalks passable, and its citizens in such a mild state of discontent that they seemed almost happy...
...roofless, blackened earthen walls, through which children and women poked forlornly. On a slope in front of the ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields. Behind her now lay the ashes of her hut and strawrick. Had she saved anything? Tears ran down her soot-stained cheeks. She moaned: "All lost, all lost...
Plain Tripe. Roaring like a subway express, Commissioner Moses retorted: "This is just plain tripe . . ." He pointed out that the buildings will house more tenants than the "rookeries" they replaced and use but 23% of the land compared to the rookeries' 60-70%. As for their height, "neither the Metropolitan nor public-housing officials can build two-story cottages or garden apartments housing a hundred people an acre on $8 to $10 a foot slum land. Mr. Mumford's funny arithmetic is based on the assumption that some private Santa Claus was . . . aching to buy this enormously expensive...
Kirkland hopes against hope that last year's late-jelling squad, a great deal of which is returning, can develop under the coaching of Gunther Rosinus. Considerable height and piut-sized Pankey, guard from last year's Freshman team, will be a big help...