Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was, at that part of the cemetery wall, a lean-to erection of boards, a kind of narrow shelter, almost a man's height, and having a rough swinging door at the nearer end. It had been there before anyone could remember, and it stayed there because no one could remember to have it taken away. It was very old and very weather-stained...
...March 12, 1914, at the height of a party, two CRIMSON editors filled the mug--originally the property of Albert V. de Roode '04--with punch, and bore the libation across the Yard to the Hollis Hall apartment of Professor Charles Townsend Copeland...
...height of the debate, Lord Merriman posed this possible situation: under the pending plan, doctors are prepared to limit the number of inseminations from one donor at one time to 100. But "what is going to happen to the next generation" twenty years from new, Lord Merriman asked, when these half-brothers and half-sisters fall in love and want to be married...
...height of the celebration, 19-year-old Hale T. Gehl, a sophomore from Chicago, and a member of Theta Delta Chi, had a bad fall. While visiting at the Delta Phi house, he lost his balance on the stairs and plunged to the bottom. Two days later he died of a brain hemorrhage...
Eastland (Miss.) . . . In the Roman Senate there existed for 450 years the right of unlimited debate . . . Cicero, at the very height of Rome's power, said in the Roman Senate that if a change of that rule were ever made, it would mark the decline of Rome...