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Word: heights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's freshman team rolled to an even easier triumph than the varsity, winning every event in a 93-16 romp. Ed Skane set an all-time record for the Yardlings in the pole vault by leaping 14 ft. 2 in., two inches higher than the winning varsity height last night...

Author: By Wilson Dubose, | Title: Thinclads Begin Indoor Schedule With Easy 91-18 Rout Over B. U. | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

...Crimson will have to do more than rattle Dartmouth's guards, however. With 6' 10" center Jim Masker. 6" 7" forward Tom Byron, and Win, Dartmouth has a definite height advantage under the boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team Faces Tough Dartmouth Squad | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...Board of Regents, had led a campaign to build a new deck of 14,000 seats. A lot of people here thought one of the last things this university needed was 14,000 more football seats and an extension of that concrete monstrosity to twice its present height. But nobody had been told about the worst aspect of the expansion plan. Erwin proposed moving a street over and completely destroying the stretch of Waller Creek I described. Even with the expansion he didn't have to destroy the creek (which he wanted to make into a concrete drainage ditch...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library. Instead of being so glaringly glass and steel it might honor the warmly colored texture of Back Bay. Finally, there's no reason for it to be a 60-story monolith-land isn't all that scarce in Boston. Of course, excessive height and strikingly in human scale are an asset to a commercial building. They assert that it is the most important, the biggest and the best, even while it draws bigger traffic jams...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Back Bay The City as Art | 11/25/1969 | See Source »

...character are constantly ridiculed, and whose energy is one of the play's driving comic forces. He had a habit, selon Terry Hands, the director, of kissing those he presumed to be his friends on both checks. The trouble was that all his friends were Englishmen, or normal height, and he was about 4'10". Hence to reach each check he had to hop, and his helloes and good-byes became increasingly more hilarious sight gags...

Author: By Frederic C. Bartter jr., | Title: Shakespeare and the RSC | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

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