Word: afternoons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...humiliating loss in this morning's three-mile race was not followed by the kind of comeback we hoped for in this afternoon's 1500m piece. Admittedly we didn't have much preparation at higher ratings, and we've only been on the water three week. The rating was low, the ratio was elusive and the set was sloppy...
Kalil notched her seventh goal of the season to knot the game at 1-1 in the first half, while both Kalil and Nagle each had a pair of shots on the afternoon. Kalil's goal moved her into fifth in the Ivy League in scoring...
...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day, the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face. Students congregate at the bus stops on Broadway and Cambridge St., on the steps of the Cambridge Public Library and, most of all, under the overpass--a second story passage that connects one of the school's concrete buildings to the other. A Korean-speaking contingent sits apart from the chaos, over on the east side of the buildings; the studious head home straight away; the punks take over the bench by the school's orange front doors. Except...
...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day, the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face. Plain-clothes security guards watch kids pour out onto the street. On Broadway, students line up against the wall of the Gustave M. Solomons Transportation Career Center to wait for the bus. A block further east, Angelo's Pizza overflows. Alex and his friends push their way in regardless...
Like all children I once wanted to be older than I was. I remember I desired it with such obtuseness that when I overheard an adult comment that exercise makes children grow faster I spent an entire afternoon walking to and fro in a vain attempt to become eight sooner than scheduled. The extent of my folly eventually dawned on me, but years later I discovered that Einstein's special theory of relativity does predict that an observer moving quickly with respect to the surroundings is, in effect, travelling into the future. Of course for the effect to have been...