Word: taller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albie Myers, a small forward, Coach Mooney believes he has one of the outstanding shots and competitors in the circuit. "If Albie were three or four inches taller, he'd be the best player in the League," says Mooney, "but even at his height (five feet eight inches) he's a great ball player...
...having other trends which speak for themselves. Students spend more for meat, fish, eggs and poultry than for any other kind of food. The trend-watchers must have thought that fact particularly significant, just as significant as the fact that Harvard University has discovered that its students are growing taller at the rate of one inch every 32 years. It things keep moving at that speed, Harvard boys will soon be men. -"The Dartmouth...
Harvard students are nearly two inches taller than the average undergraduate at midwestern universities, William H. Sheldon, research associate in Physical Anthropology, said today, after the conclusion of an extensive photographic measurement of the entire Freshman class...
...tired little milliner, told them the whole story. For 17 grey, hopeless years he had washed, dressed and fed his imbecile son. He bought him blocks and tin soldiers, read sense into his harsh animal cries. On Sundays he would lead the shuffling child, who was almost a head taller than he, past neighbors' eyes into the park. Both Louis Greenfield and his wife, Anna, stinted themselves, sent the boy to hospitals, neurologists, special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked him every few weeks. At first Louis and Anna...
Leading 31 to 9 with five minutes to go in the first half, the Crimson hoopsters saw their lead diminished to 21 to 18 by half time. Soon after the beginning of the third period the taller Bryant team passed the Jayvees and led from that time till the the end of the game...