Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Sunday, shortly after lunch, we saw a man lying delerious on the ground between Memorial Church and Widener Library. We immediately notified the University operator who in turn promptly relayed the message to Stillman Infirmary. Stillman promised to send a doctor, but after FIFTEEN MINUTES there was no sign of any aid arriving from the University Police (whose office was closed) or from Stillman...
Norway's Finn Moe summed up the problem in one questioning phrase: "Fifteen fingers on one trigger...
This year the team has a chance to take probably its best spring trip ever, at almost no cost to its members. UCLA has invited the Crimson fifteen to Los Angeles over spring recess, and has promised to pay $2,000 for traveling expenses, and additional money to cover local transportation, room, and board expenses. During the proposed trip, Harvard would play four games with West Coast teams, including UCLA in the Rose Bowl, and San Diego State in San Diego. Last spring Dartmouth went to UCLA as a result of a similar invitation. The trip was such a booming...