Word: hundredth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most striking image clearly showed a segmented, tubelike object, with a width about a hundredth that of a human hair, and to the untrained eye clearly resembling a life-form. Apparently to some trained eyes also. "When I took it home and put it on the kitchen table," says Everett Gibson Jr., a geochemist at the Johnson Space Center, "my wife, who is a biologist, asked, 'What are these bacteria...
...really have to do pretty well," says Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70, who is the chair of his department. "As generous and warm-hearted as the Faculty is, they're usually not willing to move the line that hundredth of a point that would make a difference...
Sauntering behind the two titans was the third superstar, fresh from finishing his eleven hundredth piece for Natural History magazine. He was starting to have a following amongst starry-eyed Harvard undergrads who called him "Anecdote Man" (or, at least, I call him Anecdote Man). Anecdote Man was already laying out plans in his head for his 40-minute segment: "I'll start with an exhaustive 30-second account of the history of baseball, then sprinkle in a little evolutionary history of the lungfish, then mention some arcane astronomical instrument in one of those unknown churches in the French countryside...
Harvard showed its tremendous team depth with strong performances in all the events. The only Cornell victory was in the 200 backstroke--by one hundredth of a second...
Still, Harvard is taking the meet quite seriously. Not only is the team "shaving down"--swimmers shave their legs to gain an extra hundredth-of-a-second or two--but Costin Scalise has tapered the team's workouts to conserve her swimmers' energy...