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...such product is the slide rule, made obsolete by the faster, more accurate and inexpensive pocket calculator. Keuffel & Esser Co., once the world's largest producer of slide rules, stopped manufacturing them...
...term millimicrosecond is in common use to denote one-tenth of a shake, but a more picturesque name was suggested by Dr. J. W. Keuffel (then a student at CalTech). Since this is very nearly the time taken by light to travel twelve inches, he proposed that it be called the "lightfoot" by analogy with the common astronomical unit, the "light-year"-which is, of course, a measure of distance and not of time...
...moved 80 yards against his "4-3-1-2-1" for a touchdown, Caldwell rushed a sub into the game with instructions to switch to the "wide six" defense. Penn's march slowed to marking time, and one minute before game's end, Princeton's Ken Keuffel broke a 14-14 tie with a 19-yd. field goal...
PRINCETON, N. J., October 11--"It looks pretty Coulsen," said the Sage to his Oriental sidekick, "and to be perfectly Franke, I Mead a drink. Besides, I'm pretty Finical about Howe tomorrow's game will go; you have to be Keuffel about these Harvard-Princeton contests...
...first pass was from Tex Furse to Captain Ken Keuffel, and after the boys of Blue had taken advantage of a Crimson fumble on its own 35-yard line, it was Keuffel to Furas for the second tally. This same passing combination paved the way for the final Academy touchdown in the last quarter when Keuffel rushed over the visitor's goal line for his second score...