Word: length
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolles seemed well pleased with the results of yesterday's time trial when four Varsity and two Freshman eights raced over the Henley distance. Closely bunched except for the Varsity which was well ahead, the six boats finished in good time. The Jayvees led the first Freshman by a length, followed by the third and fourth varsity and the second Yardling eight in quick succession...
...sealed many of these graves, hid many relics of Hawaii's past. One royal feather cloak is left in the Bishop Museum at Honolulu; it is valued at a million dollars. It took 100 years to make such a cloak. Only feathers of a certain texture, color and length were used; one from under each wing of the o-o or mamo birds, one from the head of the male...
...those who preferred admirals to ships there were 20-odd polite portraits by such U. S. classics as Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale, depicting bigwigs of early U. S. naval days. Crustiest entry: a full-length portrait by 18th-Century, German-born Genre Painter Daniel Nicolas Chodowieki of John Paul Jones standing in a misty landscape with a defiant expression and one day's growth of beard...
Meanwhile the managers of London's popular El Morocco bottle club were haled into Bow Street Police Court for putting on a strip-tease competition among female guests, the winner to be awarded a full-length nude of herself by Painter Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, R. A. Commented the official German radio: "The best people of London amused themselves by very strange contests. During [a] trial ... it came out that the idea of these contests was: who is the quickest in undressing? Especially the young ladies of London society took part in these contests. The girl who was the first...
With its wave length set for the opening night at 650 kilocycles, officers of the Crimson Radio Network start today on the final preparations for the first broadeast which takes place on Monday evening at 7 o'clock...