Word: eleven
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...fierce competition for each of the seven scoring positions. The entire team was closely bunched at the start, and seven runners passed the mile mark together in 4:32. By the two-mile mark, the field had begun to string out, but seventh man John Heyburn was still only eleven seconds behind the leaders...
...Good to Believe. Murphy, 38, smokes a pipe, has red hair and is nicknamed "the Crimson Fox." He has handled 40 advance assignments for Humphrey since 1964, eleven of them in this campaign. Last week he felt "like a man in the middle of the Atlantic in winter in a 3-ft. canoe." Experience warned him that the simple scheduled plans were too good to believe. Humphrey was to arrive in Hartford after midnight, catch some sleep, and next morning chat with suburban housewives in nearby Bloomfield. Then he was to fly in his Boeing 727 to Stratford...
...examined Hannell, found him to be an XYY. The imbalance, coupled with mental retardation, an aberrant brainwave pattern and evidence of neurological disorder, led Bartholomew to conclude that when Hannell killed the widow, "he did not know that what he was doing was wrong." After deliberating only eleven minutes, a Melbourne criminal-court jury found Hannell not guilty on the ground that he was insane at the time of the crime...
Earlier American historians had tended to be gifted amateurs. In 1880, Hofstadter points out, there were exactly eleven professors of American history in all U.S. colleges. They viewed the early Republic as an ideal state from which America had subsequently declined. For them the new democratic institutions established between 1776 and 1787 had been born of European theory, and flourished in America only with the help of Divine Providence. The new, progressive historians, aware of Marx and Darwin and stirred by the belief that history must be both dynamic and toughly realistic, read American history in radically different ways...
...Clark win puts the team's won-loss record at 2-1. The junior varsity split the season's first two games, losing to South-eastern Massachusetts Tech in a 3-1 decision--the team's first loss in three years--and defeating a weak Lowell Tech eleven...