Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acosta Finishes Fourth...
...captain Todd Hooks high-stepped to a third-place in the 60-yd. hurdles, Dan Sullivan flopped for fourth in the high jump, and Geoff Stiles grabbed a third in the pole vault for Harvard's remaining points...
...Glashow face each other in the picture, bemused. A cartoon-type bubble pasted on the picture depicts them berating each other with the caustic phrase, "You dummy!" A sketch of Einstein and an enlarged photograph of a delicate white web of spirals on a black background decorate the fourth wall. Cross-country skis stand in the corner...
...case for charm--or the fourth quark--became much firmer when it was realized that there was a serious flaw in the familiar three-quark [flavor] theory, which predicted that "strange" particles would sometimes decay in ways that they did not. In an almost magical way, the existence of the charmed quark prohibits these unwanted and unseen decays, and brings the theory into agreement with experiment. Thus did my recent [1970] collaborators, John Iliopoulos, Luciano Maiani and I justify another definition of charm as a magical device to avert evil...
...lineup, the Pistons have more talent than a 48-minute game can contain. On the twelve-man Detroit roster are eight players accustomed to starting and playing 35 to 40 minutes a game. A ninth man was a part-time starter last year, and still another was the fourth player chosen in the college draft last spring. Since the N.B.A. remains old-fashioned when it conies to a team having more than five players on the floor at once, the stars have been putting in more than their fair share of bench time. With six-figure salaries-and equally large...