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Word: tallest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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Frank D. Edgell is the strongest and Walter L. Towle the tallest man in the senior class at Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/22/1893 | See Source »

...decay. In one grave the bones were so nearly gone as to preserve only the outline in coarse ashes. In another the skull alone remained, in the jaws of which were the well polished teeth. The skeletons were those of men averaging 5 feet 2 inches in height, the tallest being 6 feet 2 inches. The burials were from three to five feet below the surface. The skeletons rested upon hard clay. Around them had been rudely set up flat river stones, then earth had been filled in, and over all broad, flat stones placed. In this rude incitement their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Putnam's Work in the Ohio Valley. | 5/26/1891 | See Source »

...years, 1 month for last year's freshmen. Ninety-four is also the heavier class, averaging 135 ibs. to 130. '93, however, has the heaviest man, 242 lbs. to 203 of the heaviest '94 man; but '94 has the lightest man, 77 lbs. to '93s 97. The tallest man in '94 is 6 ft. 2 3-4 in.; in 93 6 ft. 1-6 in. The shortest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Freshman Measurements. | 12/10/1890 | See Source »

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