Word: heights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the injury to Schossberger, the team's best hitter, Princeton's height advantage became an even more important factor...
Harvard's serving improved for the second set, but Penn was able to use its height advantage to thwart the Crimson. The Quakers wasted little time in rolling over the spikers in the third set. Penn held the Crimson to one point to win the set and match...
...find Degas's true feelings about women, one should consult the pastels and oil paintings of nudes that he made, at the height of his powers, in the 1880s and '90s. Their bodies are radiant, worked almost to a thick crust of pastel matte and blooming with myriad strokes within their tough winding contours. But they are also mechanisms of flesh and bone, all joints, protuberances, hollows, neither "personalities" nor pinups. (One sees why Duchamp, inventor of the mechanical bride, adored and copied Degas...
...also has an abundance of height to go with an experienced team--Cornell only lost one player to graduation...
Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova, world record holder in the women's high jump (6 ft. 10 1/2 in.), was a cinch for a gold medal. By the time the height reached 6 ft. 6 in., just three other women were still in the competition. When the bar went to 6 ft. 7 in., only American Louise Ritter was challenging her. At 6 ft. 8 in., both Kostadinova and Ritter jumped three times and missed, leaving the gold medal to be decided by a jump-off. Kostadinova in the first try knocked down the bar with her trailing heels. Next...