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...clutch, with foul trouble closing in on his squad, Coach Frank McLaughlin looked to his bench and came up with Standley, not an offensive dynamo but a good demonstration of the legend on the back of this season's practice jerseys: "DEFENSE WINS" Harvard...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: A Classical Day in the Neighborhood | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

...year veteran of that program, Parker describes this dainty dynamo as someone who "works very hard, makes an effort to understand and knows what is going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Devin Mahony | 10/20/1984 | See Source »

...powerful and athletic; not a little flower, a little flyer." Karolyi, who discovered and trained Comaneci and presided over the early development of Retton's principal rivals from Rumania, Szabo and Agache, knows a trend when he sees one. In his 4-ft. 9-in., 92-lb. dynamo, he knows he has found a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Finishing First, At Last | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...plane of the Milky Way, an extraordinary position for a magnetic field; normally it should lie in the galactic plane, its lines of force trapped like hair around a drain. Attempting to account for the bizarre properties of the field, some scientists are postulating the existence of a "dynamo" at the center of the galaxy, a source of relentless energy. But investigators cannot ascribe the dynamo to any known generating force, like giant stars or a black hole; those phenomena are too small to account for the size of the magnetic field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Cosmic Bends | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

...those waves, raising the startling possibility that the middle of the Milky Way is a barren womb. Seeking to solve the mysteries, astronomers will return to the Very Large Array again and again, tracking the motion of the gas within the filaments and possibly the origins of the dynamo at the core of the galaxy, where the answer to many questions may be revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Cosmic Bends | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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