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A tall ( 5 ' 10 "), gangling woman with a distinctive voice, Wickes would ultimately prove herself adept as a comedienne, but she first attracted attention in the film Now, Voyager ( 1942 ), as the wisecracking nurse who helped Bette Davis's character during her mother's illness.
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Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.
The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.
It has a short stem bearing a tuft of long, narrow, arching leaves 10 – 35 cm long and 1 – 2 cm broad, and a central flower stalk 25 – 60 cm tall, ending in an umbel of 20-30 white, or bright blue, funnel-shaped flowers, each flower 2. 5 – 5 cm diameter.
* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.
Today the cross, which is a replacement, is about 3 feet 4 inches ( 1 m ) tall and 1 foot 8 inches ( 0. 5 m ) across at the crosspiece, and it has its base in a socket stone which rests on a pedestal of granite blocks that raises the total height of the cross to 7 ft ( 2. 1 m ).
He stood at just 5 feet, 10 inches tall and was hurt numerous times, including a sprained ankle and a broken bone in his leg that kept him out of the last two games of the 1957 regular season.
The tower is made up of three sections: a 30. 5 m ( 100 ft ) high tower base forming the main entrance and public circulation spaces ; a 235. 4 m ( 772 ft ) tall tower body containing 57 office floors, a sky lobby and five mechanical plant floors ; and the tower top consist of six mechanical plant floors and a 102 m ( 335 ft ) tall tower mast.
These liquids are held in either special containers known as Dewar flasks, which are generally about six feet tall ( 1. 8 m ) and three feet ( 91. 5 cm ) in diameter, or giant tanks in larger commercial operations.
At launch, the orbiter and probe together had a mass of 2, 564 kilograms ( 5, 653 pounds ) and stood seven metres tall.
The campanile stands tall on a 16 by 16 foot ( 5 by 5 m ) base, and cost $ 6, 510. 20 to construct.
John grew up to be around 5 ft 5 in ( 1. 68 m ) tall, relatively short, with a " powerful, barrel-chested body " and dark red hair ; he looked to contemporaries like an inhabitant of Poitou.
The height of a full-grown, full-size llama is 1. 7 to 1. 8 m ( 5. 5 to 6. 0 ft ) tall at the top of the head, and can weigh between 130 to 200 kilograms ( 280 to 450 lb ).
The Little Penguin typically grows to between 30 and 33 cm ( 12 to 13 inches ) tall and usually weighs about 1. 5 kilogram on average ( 3. 3 pounds ).
In life, Lindow Man would have measured between 5 ' 6 " and 5 ' 8 " ( 1. 68 and 1. 73 m ) tall and weighed about.
An omnidirectional low-gain antenna was mounted on a seven foot, four inch ( 223. 5 cm ) tall mast next to the high-gain antenna.
Originally it was around 5 foot 10 tall with a stone ball on top.
Hippos measure long, including a tail of about in length and average about 1. 5 meters ( 5 ft ) tall at the shoulder.
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Effective public shelters can be the middle floors of some tall buildings or parking structures, or below ground level in most buildings with more than 10 floors.
The tree grows to 60 – 70 m ( 200 – 230 ft ) tall and has a very substantial trunk up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) in diameter with buttresses.
Mints will grow 10 – 120 cm tall and can spread over an indeterminate area.
" Featured on the magazine cover is defensive player Dennis Gaubatz, number 53, in midair pursuit with this description: " That is he, looming 10 feet tall or taller above the Steelers ' signal caller ... Since Gaubatz acts like this on Sunday, I'll do my quarterbacking Monday.
In the second year, it grows a flowering stem to 75 cm tall with sparser leaves and flat-topped 3 – 10 cm diameter umbels with numerous 2 mm diameter yellow to yellowish-green flowers.
It is a medium-sized tree, reaching 10 – 17 m tall, often with a tall, narrow crown ; a few species are shrubby.
The term " skyscraper " was first applied to buildings of steel framed construction of at least 10 storeys in the late 19th century, a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in major cities like Chicago, New York City, Detroit, and St. Louis.
* A non-standard 10 ' tall Sentinel is a playable character in X-Men: Children of the Atom.
* October 10 – A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg, Germany.
Evergreen trees growing 10 – 40 m tall.
In some areas, larger rhododendrons can be pruned to encourage more tree-like form, with some species such as R. arboreum and R. falconeri eventually growing to 10 – 15 m or more tall.
It grows 40 to 150 cm ( 16 to 57 in ) tall, with large, coarsely lobed leaves that are 10 to 20 cm ( 4 – 8 in ) long and 5 to 10 cm ( 2 – 4 in ) broad.
The so-called " Monster Moog ," built from numerous modules, weighed in at a whopping 550 pounds, stood 10 feet tall and took 4 roadies to move.
The largest bromeliad is Puya raimondii, which reaches 3 – 4 m tall in vegetative growth with a flower spike 9 – 10 m tall, and the smallest is Spanish moss.
Some flower spikes may reach 10 meters tall while others only measure 2 – 3 mm across.
A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind, ranging from small ( half a metre wide and a few metres tall ) to large ( more than 10 metres wide and more than 1000 metres tall ).
They grow to 3 – 6 m tall, occasionally to 10 m, with leaves 30 – 60 cm long and 3 – 6 cm broad.
Wallflowers are small, annual, short-lived perennial herbs or sub-shrubs, reaching 10 – 130 cm tall.
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While photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic ( he had several painters shot who did not depict him " right "), he was only five feet four inches tall ( 160 cm ).
Long gone are the log meetinghouse, stone fort, tall rows of poplars, and the Sanpete infirmary ( or " Poor House "), but many other remnants of the rural landscape remain which identify key elements of Fairview's history and present character.
In the Feluda series that followed, Feluda was portrayed as a man of around 27 with a tall ( 6 ' 2 "), athletic figure.
Edward Craddock may be tall, strong, handsome, and practically free from sin (" He simply reeks of the Ten Commandments "), but at the same time he is hardly educated, unimaginative, and unnecessarily headstrong.
After stuffing her face with candies ( from a box marked " Chattanooga Chew-Chews "), she asks her magic mirror to " send her a prince ' bout six feet tall ", but when Prince Chawmin ' arrives in his flashy car, he declares " that mean ol ' queen sho ' is a fright / but her gal So White is dyn-a-mite!
A toque blanche ( French for " white hat "), often shortened to toque, is a tall, round, pleated, starched white hat worn by chefs.
The trees of the forest were so tall and dense that little light reached the floor ( thus the phrase " darkest Africa "), food was scarcely to be found, and the local Pygmies took the expedition for an Arab raiding party, shooting at them with poisoned arrows.
His facial features are described as rough ( although Susannah once compared them to that of a tired poet ; Eddie frequently refers to him as " old long tall and ugly "), and he has light blue eyes, often referred to by characters and Stephen King as " bombardier's eyes.
This made the area much safer from threat of water, but the tall embankments effectively destroyed the traditional embarkation point called the Ripetta (" little bank "), the narrow streets leading down to the river, and the vernacular buildings along the river edge.
A former professional basketball player with the old National Basketball League Denver Nuggets, noted for his liberal views, Udall was a tall ( 6 ' 5 "), Lincolnesque figure with a self-deprecating wit and easy manner.
The cemetery contains over 14 miles of paved roads, a section with several dozen mausolea (" mausoleum city "), and a row of very tall obelisk monuments, most with elaborate bases.
Shabbir Ahmed is a tall ( 6 ' 5 "), Pakistani fast bowler.
At 5 ' 5 " tall ( by some accounts he was 5 ' 4 "), he was the shortest player of his time.
His most distinct features are his tall, Kid ' n Play-style hair ( classmate Helga often calls him " Tall Hair Boy "), and his shirt with the number 33 on it ( he also wears 33 on sports uniforms, probably as a reference to either NBA Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Patrick Ewing, or Scottie Pippen ).
She was tall for her times ( 162 cm, or 5 ' 4 "), with a slim, shapely body, blonde hair and even white teeth.
The Wiener Riesenrad ( German for " Viennese giant wheel "), or Riesenrad, is a tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna.
A tall ( 6 ', 4 "), imposing, confident and charismatic speaker who soon took over as preacher of the Church of the People in 1919, he read voraciously on " comparative religion, philosophy, sociology and psychology ," and " seemingly overnight.
The great hammerhead can be distinguished from other hammerheads by the shape of its " hammer " ( called the " cephalofoil "), which is wide with an almost straight front margin, and by its tall, sickle-shaped first dorsal fin.
The school is composed of three main buildings ( titled " A ," " B ," and " C "), each one being 3 stories tall.
The other tower in the square is not the one giving the name to the place, but the Medieval Torre del Papito (" Little Pope's Tower "), attributed by tradition to Antipope Anacletus II Pierleoni, allegedly not a tall person.
De Marigny was a tall ( 6 ' 5 "), handsome man, a charming and bright conversationalist, an accomplished competitive sailor who won many regattas, and he later wrote two books.
The piano introduction is accompanied by a spoken-word introduction, setting a tone of macabre humour (" The most interesting thing about King Charles the First is that he was five foot six inches tall at the start of his reign, but only four foot eight inches tall at the end of it "), as are the subsequent connecting passages.
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