Word: afternoons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taking a breather from Easter dinner preparations yesterday afternoon, Judith S. and John G. "Sean" Palfrey relived the moment they learned they would become the new masters of Adams House...
Woodfork, who leads the team with a .419 batting average and 26 hits, worked a 2-2 count but bounced into a game-ending 6-4-3 double play, perfectly symbolic of Harvard's frustrations on the afternoon...
...fact, the only thing Birtwell did wrong on the afternoon was dropping Binkowski's flip from the infield side of first base after Binkowski made a diving stop on James Mullen in the sixth...
...telescope on Earth for four decades. It would have been even longer, but its completion was interrupted by World War II. So was Hubble's career. The ex-major signed on as head of ballistics at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. (At one point the eminent astronomer spent an afternoon test-firing bazookas, at great personal risk, to pinpoint a design flaw...
...blustery, wintry afternoon in 1970 at the University of Chicago when I first met Louis and Mary's son Richard. He had just completed a preliminary presentation on his new finds from Lake Turkana (then Lake Rudolf). I told him I would be in Nairobi the next summer and wanted to see his exciting hominid fossils. A year younger than I, he had chosen, after becoming disenchanted with the safari business, to follow in his parents' footsteps. It appeared that he too possessed the "Leakey luck" and was well on the way to stardom in paleoanthropology...