Word: lande
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...government concentrator, Hill's 3.32 GPA was good enough to land him on the Second Team. Academic All-Americans must be starters or key reserves and maintain GPAs between...
Take, for example, one of Harvard's most influential innovator-alums, Edwin Land. As an undergraduate, Land invented the polarizing filter: layered sheets of plastic that block waves of light moving in certain directions. The Faculty was so impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film...
...Pennypacker. The four-story beer funnel has long been a tradition among Union dwellers. These 40 feet of tattered tubing, duct-taped where needed and capped with a simple plastic funnel, hang as a testament to a freer spirit of invention than exists in the austere labs of Edwin Land's Science Center...
Gyorffy explains that at some competitions, circumstances have been out of her control. For example, she had flight trouble due to the inclement weather the night before the NCAA Championship meet earlier this month. She did not land in Indianapolis until after 10 p.m. that evening. The facility had to stay open after 11 p.m. just so that she should could get a practice in before going...
...tend to go to the bars to reconnect you with the land you left behind," cunningham says...