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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another revolutionary feature of the Checkmate is its ability to accomodate players of all shoulder structures. Conventional shoulder pads come in only one size, but the Checkmate comes in three sizes, so the smaller players don't find their pads down on their arms, and the bigger ones aren't choked...

Author: By Ted Ullyot, | Title: Checkmating Injuries | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...ADDITION TO ability to encouraging house creativity, large budgets enable houses to throw extravagant parties on a scale that most Harvard students couldn't imagine--like Quincy's moon-walk palace, Eliot's opulent Spring Fete, and Currier's seemingly endless string of massive parties. Those bigger budgets make possible those little extra things--like live bands, rock videos, raffles for plane tickets to the Bahamas--and it keeps committees from worrying about running out of alcohol...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Poor Little Rich House | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...able to put on bigger and more lavish dances, but you're just as likely to have more fun anyway whether you're wearing a tux or jeans," says Leverett's Martin, whose house this fall organized an apple picking expedition. "It will cost us nothing but already in two days 30 people have signed up," Martin says...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Poor Little Rich House | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...fair, even if the material that Nelligan is given to work with is a bit unbelievable, her performance as a desperate mother who willingly sacrifices her own life in order that the lives of her children can be saved is unforgettable. Gage's bigger-than-life size version of his mother lingers indelibly...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: The Gospel of St. Eleni | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...protons (and usually their antimatter counterparts, positrons or antiprotons) are spurred to nearly the speed of light and tremendous energy levels by radio waves and steered on their circular course by magnets. The monumental girth of the new machines stems from limitations in the power of the guiding magnets; bigger circular tracks have gentler curves and thus require less intense magnetic fields to keep the particles on their required path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Colossus of Colliders | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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