Word: cubed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twirls (and spills) and sip hot cocoa on a wintry afternoon. In 1980 the city closed Wollman for renovations, which were expected to take no longer than two years. The city originally estimated that the repair bill would total $9 million, but it eventually reached $12 million without a cube of ice to show for it. The roof of the pavilion, which houses the changing rooms and restaurant, was riddled with holes and made a perfect sieve. The ice-making equipment could not do its job because its 22 miles of refrigeration pipes had sprung dozens of leaks, a disaster...
...still early, but the race may be over. Not the race for the 1986 NFL play-offs or the race for the 1992 Summer Olympics, but the 1986 Sports Cube Predicts race...
Does the Harvard community at large really watch this race as closely as the current leader seems to think? I mean, are there--in dorm rooms all over Cambridge--magnetic standings boards on which our readers eagerly track the Sports Cube Predicts race...
...think of what I did as time off; for me it was time on. Getting beyond the lecture halls and really for the first time being a part of that bigger world gives my formal education a third dimension. It's the difference between a square and a cube...
...calculate it," says Rubik with a trace of mischief. "No one has so far." The Hungarian entrepreneur, however, has had no trouble calculating the commercial potential of his new gizmo, which is about to go on sale in the U.S. for $10. "All the people who liked the Cube will like Magic," predicts Rubik. "And there's a whole generation of young people who didn't get the Cube, who are now old enough to try Magic." Mathematical progressions are a wonderful thing...