Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knocked out 39 opponents in 54 fights, yet lost his crucial bouts with Heavyweight Champions Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. He came closest to the title in 1899 when he battled Jeffries at Coney Island for 25 rib-cracking rounds under a broiling bank of 400 arc lights (for an early attempt at indoor movies). After running a famous bar on Manhattan's 14th Street, he drifted to the West Coast, died a pauper...
...business woman meets violent disagreement from a man she knows only slightly, she cannot shame or flabbergast her opponent without being labeled a battle-ax . . . She is always a salesman on the side . . . Successful women know who they are: they don't confuse themselves with Joan of Arc or Sarah Bernhardt or Florence Nightingale and, unlike some male executives, they don't confuse themselves with the President of the U.S. or God Almighty...
This time he met the first charge kneeling, in the dead center of the ring. As the bull came, he swung his cape in a wide arc, making the bull hurtle past him through the air. He ended one series of passes by tossing aside his cape and kneeling with his back to the bull, which stood transfixed. Sombreros began to rain into the ring. "Torero!" yelled the fans, "torero, torero, torero!" He was awarded both ears of his second bull, and walked twice around the ring as a blizzard of waving white handkerchiefs broke over the whole arena. Said...
...final figure, checked over & over, was almost too pat to believe. Einstein's theory predicts that a star whose light just grazes the sun should appear to shift its position by 1.75 seconds of arc.* The figure computed from Van Biesbroeck's photographs showed a shift of 1.70 seconds of arc. The Supreme Court of Observation had by unanimous decision confirmed Einstein...
...From the earth the full moon covers about half a degree or 1,800 seconds of arc...