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Weighed down by a bookbag packed so tightly that she is forced to wedge her statistics textbook under her arm, Ocon's five-foot, two-inch frame firmly grasps the carriage's top and with one quick tug manages to detach it from the body...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Student Moms Juggle Schoolwork, Parenting | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...five-foot, 11-inch forward may be humble and retiring with her teammates, but she dominates the boards against opponents. Sunday's 27-point performance also carried with it 19 rebounds...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: Feaster Famine? Not for This Frosh | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...that point, with 1:45 on the clock, Butler took a pass in the paint, pivoted around her Big Red defender and hit a five-foot bank shot to give Harvard a commanding 72-52 lead and herself a place in the record book; she became the first Crimson player ever to reach the 1,000-point milestone in her junior season...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: W. Cagers Garner First League Win, Defeat Cornell, 72-57 | 2/12/1994 | See Source »

...line for the coffee is ten agents deep. The Secret Service also seems to have a monopoly on the bathroom. Extra trays of doughnuts and pastries are brought out from the back by the store's owner, a five-foot tall Asian American man who insists on having his picture taken with local news anchors who are warming themselves with his coffee...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

...pursues his life long dream of playing football for the Notre Dame Irish. Only three things stand in his way: He doesn't have the high school grades to get into Notre Dame, he doesn't have any money to pay for the tuition and he is only five-foot seven inches tall, hardly the size necessary to join the nearly professional Notre Dame team...

Author: By Roan Kang, | Title: Tiny Tackler | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

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