Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meter race, Adam Dixon blazed home in 1:50.7. a personal best. However, Brown's Osman Lake broke the tape in 1:50.6. In the 400-meter hurdles, thinclad Lance Miller came to the wire in a personal best of 53.5 seconds, but he finished (you guessed it) second behind Julian Schmoke of Dartmouth...
Despite the absence of All-American middle-distance men Adam Dixon and John Murphy, as well as versatile jumping threat Sola Mahoney, the Crimson held a seven-point lead heading into the final three events...
...this description?) In addition, the men were wealthy, single, and had been receiving treatments for rheumatism at the Vittorini mineral baths. In two years, all eleven men either vanished, went insane or committed suicide. After an unsuccessful inquiry by the Italian carabinieri, John is called in to pose as Adams, one of the victims, in the hope that he can induce a repetition of the circumstances that led to Adam's death...
...unlike as Naum Gabo and David Smith were affected by it. No sculptor interested in either ideal formal systems or new materials was immune to its promises, and its influence persists to this day. Sculpture had been solid since paleolithic man made his fertility dolls, indeed since God made Adam out of clay; it now became a matter of intersecting planes, of wires springing through space, and airy conjunctions of industrial materials-sheet metal, plywood, Celluloid, Bakelite. "Matter is dissolved into pure planes and 3 lines, penetrating each other, devoid of mass and transparent," wrote Author Alexander Dorner...
...highlight of the afternoon came in the 1500-meter race. The spectators, who, if gathered collectively, would barely have occupied Row J of Section 32, reached their emotional peak as Crimson thinclads Thad McNulty and Adam Dixon battled to the tape for the top spot. McNulty held off Dixon's charge by one-tenth of a second...