Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Play-dome is the most recent of Matrix' brain-children. Built on the "geodesic principle" of interlocking triangles, the dome is a hardwood and pressed plastic affair which stands 5 feet high and ten feet across--when the pieces are fitted together properly. The Play-dome is intended for 3 to 13 year olds who, utilizing its vinyl-plastic cover, can make it a clubhouse, cave, mountain, trampoline set, igloo, or inter-stellar space station depending upon the relative imaginations and precocity. "Little girls," claim its inventors, "can use it for their own Teahuose of the August Moon...
Weak signals (measured in microwatts) from the radio pill's transistor oscillator can be received a few feet away, vary in frequency with changes of pressure on a rubber membrane stretched across one end (e.g., frequency decreases when the pill reaches a churning stomach, rises when it enters a slowly pulsating small intestine). A fluoroscope can keep track of the pill's position in the body, while a receiver picks up the FM signals, presents them to the examiner on an oscilloscope as graph waves. Prospects are good that the transmitter will replace awkward, uncomfortable tubes now used...
...against a concrete cylinder that houses the echo organ and at the apex of a concrete parabolic arch that springs from the ground and spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful, the chin raised with authority and grandeur, the hands held out in eloquent plea and promise, the feet slightly dragging as if in pain, a reminder of the tragedy implicit in the dramatic origins of Christianity...
Senior Pete Harpel led a Crimson sweep of the hammer, as he broke Sam Felton's seven-year-old record of 180 feet, 5 1/4 inches with a toss of 182 feet, 4 1/2 inches. John DuMoulin and Jim Doty took second and third for the varsity...
...field events, Henry Wente and Dave Gately took first and second for the varsity in the broad jump, while John deKiewiet figured in a three-way tie for first in the high jump. Carl Pescosolido unleashed a toss of 201 feet, 3 inches to win the javelin, while Doty took the shot. Tony Gianelly took the other Crimson first as he won the discus. Barnes Keller took second for the varsity in the pole vault...