Word: field
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hackett obliterated the one-year-old Blodgett pool record in his specialty, the 1000-yd. freestyle, outdistancing the rest of the field by at least two laps while clipping nearly 30 seconds from the old standard. The Yonkers, N.Y. native's time (9:08.31) is the second fastest recorded in the country this year, surpassed only by his own 9:05 effort last week against Navy...
Some swift skating by Jack Hughes saved an open-net goal in the field minute as he chased down a Jim Lovitt roller, poking the puck away just a few feet in front of the Harvard cage...
Margaret Mead accomplished what few anthropologists have ever attained--public fame. She helped popularize what for most Americans was an obscure field dealing with foreign cultures in far-flung places. Not only was she one of the first anthropologists to write for the general public but in her fieldwork in Samoa, New Guinea, Bali and even South Dakota she also attempted to integrate psychology and anthropology into a more all-inclusive social science...
...Unlike physics or calculus or other hard sciences there is no justification for anthropology confining itself to scrutiny by a specialized elite. It concerns itself with examining something tangible--humans--by means of a very common human device--observation. Mead had no practical training before venturing into the field. Basically she did little more than what all of us are capable of doing if we set our minds to it: she kept her eyes and ears open. Yet her results were as refreshing, as interesting and as variable as any offered by other anthropologists...
...Ford, has been able to attract a most impressive array of soccer talent. Each year, the caliber of the Harvard soccer program has kept pace with, if not outpaced, the majority of the schools it plays. There is yet to be a team that has proved this on the field...