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Thre is something magical about a fifteen story building on stilts, somethings that incites usually complacent city planners and historians almost to wrath, that brings a far-off look to the eyes of businessmen. Think now, a solution to the MTA bus problem with elevators and a terminal, a solution to the Square parking problem by addition of nearly 150 spaces. Think now, fiften stories to bring over one thousand more consumers and friends to Cambridge, to add great sums to the tax base. Think, all this at the cost of a walled-in strip of grass, where cows cannot...
Thoughtful citizens ask themselves what defense they have against this outrage. Protest has failed, and now the time has come for vigorous action. An emergency snowfort must be built to save our snow. Experts agree that the soundest proposal is far a fifteen story snowfort on stilts in the northern corner of Harvard Square, across from Littauer. This is a temporary solution, but nonetheless a solution, And time is running...
...impossible to see what the effect of the plan might be," Nash declared. "As a fifteen story building," he said, "it might generate from 1,000 to 1,500 people and perhaps 500 cars per day, including tenants, visitors, and service vehicles...
...quite a year later, staring down the barrel of a microscope, Feynman saw magnified 40 times a turntable motor that easily met his specifications. Devised by William H. McLellan, a 35-year-old engineer for a Pasadena research firm, the motor was fifteen thousandths of an inch square (smaller than a pencil dot), weighed 250 micrograms, and was powered by one thousandth of a watt. Working for two months in his spare time, Caltech Graduate McLellan used sharpened toothpicks, a watchmaker's lathe and a micro-drill press to fashion his flyspeck engine, which operates on the same "synchronous...
...goalie made his move, Forbes passed to center Jim Dwinell, who was about fifteen feet out, and ten to the goalie's right. Dwinell's shot bounced off the goalie's left-hand post, out onto the rink, where a St. Lawrence defenseman recovered the puck...