Known to his army friends as High Tower because of his height, he went to school at St Goban's College, near Bantry, in County Cork.

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His father was a British consul in Moscow in 1935-38, and Norman's summer holidays from school were spent there at the height of Stalin's purges.

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In middle school, when his tics were at the height of their intensity, the principal approached him and asked if he'd like to educate the student body about his condition.

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At its height, influenza type B struck down 200 at Caereinion High School in Llanfair Caereinion, which has 563 pupils.

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In 2006, Joan Meyers-Levy, a marketing professor at the University of Minnesota's school of management, studied the relationship between ceiling height and thinking style.

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Going to school she was considered one of the pack, known more for her height than for gossip.

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The thin soles and old-school design proved a hit, and its once-dowdy gymwear became the height of fashion.

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Glasper confessed to Marian McPartland a childhood dream of playing basketball in the NBA. Despite his more than adequate height for such a career, Glasper's immersion in jazz and an acceptance into Houston's High School for Performing Arts set him on the path toward a career at the piano.

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