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...dress for faculty and graduate students can be complex. Their robes include a black hood lined on the inside with the colors of the institution from which they graduated. Their hood signifies their previous degrees, with the longest, four-foot hoods denoting holders of doctorate degrees. Harvard’s color is crimson, while Yale’s is blue and Princeton’s is orange with a black chevron...
...bottom of the stick in order to add paraffin paper wings for the arrow to have better flight. Sometimes, the arrow is dipped into frog or snake poison before being released. The bow is made by forcefully bending hard wood and adding string and springs. The result is a four-foot bow that can shoot an arrow for over 1,500 feet...
...average Cambridge sidewalk is infamous for its inability to comfortably accommodate two people walking abreast. Add a four-foot circle around each person and you have an impassable wall of nylon and steel. In the rain, stepping over the curb becomes an impossibility, and phalanxes of overstressed and rushed Harvard students clump up on sidewalks, knotted up by umbrellas. Cambridge’s Puritan planners simply didn’t have umbrellas in mind when they were laying out the cobblestones, but we insist on jamming the streets with them anyhow...
...those missteps can add up across five players and three rounds. Even a weakness in one area of a player’s game can hurt his round just enough contribute to a poor team score. “All it takes each round is a couple of missed four-foot putts, and instead of a top-20 finish, you’re looking at a 50th-place finish,” Mayer said. “When you start missing putts and hitting errant shots, that can build upon itself and compound into more mistakes. Instead of 72, you?...
...think at first she’s just a transvestite, but then you suddenly realize that it’s actually just an optical illusion: in her words, “I do not impersonate females. How many women do you know who wear seven-inch heels, four-foot wigs, and skintight dresses?” True that, RuPaul, true that. —Tim R. Hwang ’08 may have finished fourth in the 2006 UC Presidential elections, but he’s still working towards its demise...