Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard men's tennis team was no exception. The No. 16-ranked Crimson traveled to California for the Gaucho Classic and a battle with No. 17 Pepperdine. However, the weather on the left coast proved to be more of a hindrance than a help, and the Crimson's performance suffered early in the trip. The journey closed on a positive note when the Crimson beat Pepperdine on the Waves' home court for the first time in 10 tries...
...caught on. In 1929, an 11-ft. missile caused such a stir the police were called. Where there are police there is inevitably the press, and next day the local paper ran the horse-laughing headline: MOON ROCKET MISSES TARGET BY 238,799 1/2 MILES. For Goddard, the East Coast was clearly becoming a cramped place to be. In 1930, with the promise of a $100,000 grant from financier Harry Guggenheim, Goddard and his wife Esther headed west to Roswell, N.Mex., where the land was vast and the launch weather good, and where the locals, they were told, minded...
...Undersea," the young writer's first publication in a national magazine (September 1937), was seminal in theme and tone to all her later writing. Together with an evocative Sun feature, "Chesapeake Eels Seek the Sargasso Sea" ("From every river and stream along the whole Atlantic Coast, eels are hurrying to the..."), it was the starting point for her first book...
Success permitted Carson to retire from the FWS in 1952 to write full time. That summer she bought land and built a cottage on the Sheepscot River near West Southport on the coast of Maine, where she and her mother had visited since...
...appreciated how easily radio waves can be bounced off almost any object. In 1925 physicists took advantage of this, firing signals at the ionosphere and using the reflection to measure its altitude. By World War II, British scientists had refined the technology, and the government began to dot the coast of England with civil-defense radar stations. As the hardware got simpler, radar found its way into airplanes, boats and air-traffic-control towers, improving navigation and ensuring that even a cow-pasture airport could operate safely. By the end of the century, the same basic technology was being used...