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...England record as well. They were well earned records, for as someone told me on the way out, "It used to be easy to break records in the Bubble when it was new because almost every time somebody ran they'd break a record. But it's a helluva lot harder now." That reminded me of the time I ran the 1000-yd. run at Lawrenceville. I ran an awful time, 2:23, but it was a record because nobody had ever run it before. The next time it was run, four years later, somebody beat my time...
...score in every event, and I don't know what other school can make that claim," he said. "But we really don't know what exams and the flu have done to us and we're not as sharp as we were before exams. It ought to be a helluva meet...
...consciousness which 12 years in the Birmingham schools and black neighborhoods have stifled. "The question is," Monro says, "'Can you--in a year or two--repair what has happened after 12 years in a poorly funded, inefficient school system?' The answer is 'yes.' You can. You can do a helluva...
...jeese, it was a helluva fight, ya know...
...rise of environmentalism, so Hanslin walked the land with planners and ecologists, analyzing soil, water, slopes and wind patterns. Then the roads and utility lines went in, following not a predetermined grid of homesites but the natural terrain. "You spend more time on the drawing board and a helluva lot more in the field," he says, "but you end up doing the least amount of developing-and spend the least amount of money disturbing things and putting them back...