Word: heights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...height of the revolt, the general, learning that his son had been ordered to the capital, demanded by radio whether the government meant "to repeat the terrible situation in which Spanish Republicans put Colonel Moscardo." The government in La Paz, whose transfer of young Lieut. Calleja had been wholly routine, saw a chance to put itself in a chivalrous light. It radioed the rebel general that his son would be sent to him in the safekeeping of the Brazilian military attache...
Tardiness on the part of factory workers and state employees, Rakosi went on, has greatly increased. Some factories have separate time clocks which register 7 a.m. all day long for the benefit of latecomers. The number of absentees and sick has risen to an unprecedented height. In one week, for example, 500 employees of the State Cattle Administration were absent on sick leave. When visited by supervisors sent around by the state-controlled trade union, only one of the absentees was home-and he was celebrating his wedding...
...however, Lincoln had become the leader of the Sangamon County delegation of nine Whigs-"the Long Nine" whose aggregate height was exactly 54 feet. Everybody knew that Vandalia's days were numbered as the state capital; it was too far south. In 1837 a new capital would be chosen, and the Long Nine were out to put across Springfield, in Sangamon County, as the new site. An "internal improvements" bill, calling for the expenditure of $10 million or $12 million on railroads and waterways, gave them their chance to logroll. Lincoln became "an amiable, entertaining apostle of adequate transportation...
After searching high & low these many years, Illustrator George Petty at last found in Screen Star Joan Caulfield (height, 5 ft. 5 in.; weight, 119 lbs.; waist, 25 in.; bust, 35½ in.) the perfect model for his once-famed Petty Girl, promptly set to work sketching her. By an astounding coincidence, Joan was hard at work on a new movie-The Petty Girl...
Before the shy volcano stopped growing late in 1945, it reached a height of about 1,000 feet. Said Professor Tanakadate, of the rare phenomenon that had been observed with such care: "It may be a source of fear and destruction to the ordinary inhabitants of the area, but to scientists it is a source of wonder and delight. Actually, we scientists know so little...