Word: allerton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preparing to do so, another American, an unemployed computer technician named Wayne Dickinson, washed up on the rocks of Ireland in God's Tear, 142 days after setting sail from Point Allerton, Mass. God's Tear, indeed; Dickinson's boat was about 2 in. shorter than Dunlop's. McClean now had two American tiny-tub artists to beat, and earlier this month he succeeded, despite a broken mast in the Bay of Biscay, reaching Portugal in the bobtailed Giltspur, now a mere 7 ft. 9 in. overall. "The more people say a thing...
...dash--1. Freshman (BC) 25-88:2. Scharoun (H):3. Jolle (NU) : 4 Rice (BC): 5. Spiegel (BU) 440-yd. dash--1. Busby (H) 50.90:2. Gabler (H):3. Korecses (BU): 4. Lucey (BC): 5 Burke (BU). 600-yd.run--1. Allerton (BU) 1:24.37:2.p. Defries (H): 3. Abengowb (BU):4. Anderson (H): 5 Cowighard (BC) 60-yd. dash--1. Freemen (BC) 7.34:2. Scharoun (H): 3. Rice (BC): 4 Spiegel (BU): 5. Newfauser...
...computer program is being put to a wide range of uses. It helps Allerton Cushman Jr., a New York financial analyst, to project insurance-industry profits during the week and tote up his income taxes on the weekend. The Cabot Street Cinema Theatre in Beverly, Mass., bought VisiCalc to figure out which pattern of movie show times draws the best box-office receipts. An accounting firm in Las Vegas plans to use VisiCalc to tell its gambling-house clients how to position slot machines around the floor to ensure the biggest take. VisiCalc is obviously one composition that...