Word: inched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 60 million words have been stored ona five and three-quarter inch compact disc whichlooks identical to those discs which play music,says Theodore Brunner, a professor of classics whochairs the Irvine group called the ThesarusLinguae Graecae project...
...four times as quick as the original. It is loud -- with stereo sound. It is expandable -- with six plug-in slots for peripheral devices. And for the first time on a Macintosh screen, it has color selected from a palette of 16 million hues and displayed on a 13-inch monitor. This week Apple Computer unveiled its Mac II, a spiffy unit priced at $3,899 (monitor not included). Yet the Mac II is most notable for a departure from Apple's previous products: with the proper accessories, it can run the huge library of software written...
...Mario Andretti or A.J. Foyt? Or is it the car?" One of the shapeless peaked caps he rotates in endless supply bears the emblem of Calumet Farm. If Kentucky had bred Conner, would he have trained horses? Alydar was a Calumet colt the year Affirmed beat him by an inch in all of the Triple Crown races. Romantics tended to credit that inch to Affirmed's young jockey, Steve Cauthen. "Maybe if it comes to that," Conner says softly...
...certain mysticism surrounds the tunnels which span about three miles and connect the basements of almost every building in the College and much of the University. The tunnels take their name from the three 10-to-12-inch steam lines which provide Harvard with 100 pounds of steam pressure per square inch. In addition, the tunnels carry electric, telephone, and water lines and the cotton-insulated radio cables of WHRB, the student-run radio station...
...steel sizing ball which had become our weapon was the inexplicable product of a government surplus catalogue. Austin, a veteran consumer of the obscure, has an obsession for buying anything advertised with exclamation points--"Two-inch diameter! 27 ounces!" After three intense hours of academic grundgework--a feat of concentration made more impressive by the blaring conditions forced on us by a merciless stereo--Dave had conceived of a use for the Steel Chrome Sizing Ball. "Boys," he had said, "it's time to relax...