Word: feet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of feet beneath the ground outside the Swiss town of Meyrin, near Geneva, a six-year, $660 million construction project is rushing toward a payoff. Workers at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) have excavated a 12-ft.-wide circular tunnel that is 16 miles in circumference, installed nearly 5,000 powerful electromagnets, and put along the ring four massive detectors, each weighing several tons but sensitive to the passage of a single subatomic particle. This week, if all goes according to plan, technicians will begin test runs of the largest scientific instrument in the world...
...recalls the mineral's origin, millions of years ago, in ancient seashores, and feels that there is a "frozen sea in me." Describing the geology of Alabama and Mississippi, he writes, "The old sea retreated two hundred and fifty million years ago . . . the sands, five and six thousand feet down, like plunging porpoises, sounding, headed back to the deep...
Watching the Sharfstein complaining extravaganza has its costs, however. When my relatives take action, the best location for any onlooker is six feet beneath the ground...
...have enough time to analyze the plan. Moreover, the group, which has been able to halt logging by obtaining court injunctions, was unwilling to drop all litigation for two years, as stipulated. In addition, the conservationists contended that the proposal, which allows loggers to harvest 8 billion board feet in the disputed lands through 1990, some 2 billion less than under normal conditions, surrendered too much...
...Samuel Taylor Coleridge did not fight over drinking water as they rambled through the Lake District. In any case, the important thing to Toad was that walking put the mind in motion, and might even set poetry in motion. A line of verse is a march of poetic feet, the trudge of iambs and shuffle of dactyls, the ambulations of language...