Word: cranes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meehan finished first for the Crimson in the respectable time of 25:57, followed by Hamlin in 26:11. Brown's Dave Farley, last year's winner and the favorite yesterday, finished fourth, while Bruins Jones, Rothenberg, and Boog grabbed third, fifth, and sixth Harvard men Bill Crane, Jack D'Arcy, Dick Hawkins and Bob Anschuetz filled the remaining places with Anschuetz displacing Brown's fifth man for the extra point...
Like everything else in the accelerator, the equipment in the experimental hall is designed for maximum flexibility. Lead-and-concrete shielding blocks weighing 35 tons each are moved from experiment to experiment by a giant overhead crane. It is expected that several beams will emerge simultaneously from the ring at different places, and thus as many as six experiments may be conducted at once...
Others fleeing from East Berlin had better luck last week. A young electrical engineer clung to a homemade bucket seat attached to a crane while friends on the Western side wafted him 90 ft. across the Wall. Three teenage boys cut their way through barbed wire, and a coal miner, his courage kindled by schnapps, leaped 35 ft. from a bridge into a barge canal, then swam to the Western shore...
What is hurting Algeria most, however, is not the leaving of businessmen, farmers or even engineers, but the departure of the skilled technicians, the foremen and secretaries. In Oran it is almost impossible to find a mechanic, a locksmith or a crane operator. Entire districts are without telephone service because there are no European repairmen or linemen left. The teacher shortage is so desperate that there is doubt that the schools will be able to open in the fall, and the equally severe scarcity of doctors has raised the fear of epidemics. "You ask what is working in Algeria," said...
Fitzgerald and Stephen Crane-although it is true that both Crane and Fitzgerald relinquished the honor in their mid-twenties and went on to man's literary estate, while Vidal, at the moment of his elevation, is 36. The new boy earned his rank by writing, before he was 30, eight throbbing novels (the most notable, The City and the Pillar, was the warmly sympathetic apologia of a tennis player who liked tennis players much better than he liked playing tennis), and then chucked it all to write for television. This dramatic renunciation-Rimbaud would never have gone into...