Word: evens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high jump, Brown's Chris Vellturo copped first with a paltry leap of six feet even; Harvard nabbed the two remaining spots, earning points for a jump...
...middle distances, the tracksters easily won every event and exhibited a number of solid runners who snared seconds and thirds. Halfway through the meet it became clear that the Bruins owned few runners capable of challenging even the second-echelon Crimson entrants, as the thinclads claimed at least a second in each of the first eight events, winning six and sweeping...
...being in the right place at a stimulating time. Three years ago, while on loan from TIME to teach journalism at the American University in Cairo, she was caught in one of the riots over high Egyptian food prices that rattled the government of President Anwar Sadat. This year, even before settling in as the magazine's New Delhi bureau chief, she covered the collapse of the government of Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai...
...Even TIME's Frank Trippett was overcome by the magnitude of a billion. An airplane propeller spinning 2,400 r.p.m. would actually spin 1,261,440,000 times in a 365-day year...
...death [Oct. 29] shortly after I had discovered and was still reading A Child's Garden of Curses. There's no doubt about the man's ingenuity, and the death of such an amusing character is a pity. I'm sure that now even the saints won't be able to keep a straight face with him and his writing around...