Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christiane defied them. Conscience-stricken and deeply impressed, Goethe rushed her to the church and made her his wife. When later asked by an admirer how he had fared in those critical days of invasion, Goethe instantly assumed his statuary expression: "I was like a man who from the height of a cliff surveys the raging sea. Though he cannot succor the shipwrecked, neither can he be reached by the tumultuous waters...
Calumet's greatest pair, while the same age (four) and the same height (16 hands), are poles apart in temperament and style. Citation is the class horse, a rugged bay that runs only as fast as he has to. "A Chinaman could train him," says Ben Jones. The only one he is hard on around the barn is his exercise boy; he gets his head low in morning gallops and just about pulls his rider's arms out of their sockets. He is a glutton for feed...
...department chairmen up through university presidents, must be prepared to show the greatest integrity and personal courage to protect the freedom of their teachers. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams is exemplary among current administrators: he has withstood extreme alumni pressure in protecting a teacher's right at the height of a crucial drive for endowment--the weakest spot of a private school today...
...when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests. The B-36 had left standard jets gasping for air at its 40,000 foot operating altitude; even the F-86, which had grabbed the world's speed record, could not keep up with it at this height. The tests convinced Secretary Johnson and Congress, in that order; on April 23, the keel of the "United States" was ordered off the ways...
Rubble & Risk. A frantic assault by healing antibodies began immediately. To save the tunnel-which had cost $50 million, 14 lives* and seven years' labor-firemen, tunnel workers, policemen and rescue squads fought into the tube at the height of the 4,000-degree fire. Dozens collapsed from smoke and choking gases...