Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This fall, reading period was four days--or 28.5 percent--shorter than usual. When grade reports are sent out today, no note will be made of this condensed preparation time. Harvard naively pretends that the length of reading period is just not that important. Unfortunately, four days do make a difference: every day taken away means less time spent on important papers, fewer pages read, and less material learned...
Asked about the release earlier in the day of Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Reagan said he "talked at great length about human rights" with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev at their summit last November. Reagan said he thought there had been an increase in such emigrations since then, and added, "I hope that this is a beginning sign of what's going to take place...
...with only seven minutes gone in the second period, Crimson forward Nick Carone stole the puck from Huskie defenseman Bob Kimura, skated the length of the ice and shoved a shot under N.U. goalie Bruce Racine--last year's Beanpot MVP--to give Harvard an insurmountable 2-1 lead...
...Victorian house, located in what was apparently once Cambridge, Mass. She notes the costume she must wear, a Handmaid's uniform, when she is allowed to go out shopping: "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs...
...magnetic field also helped scientists calculate the length of a Uranian day. By detecting the changing radio emissions caused by the interaction of the field with the solar wind as the planet turns on its axis, the spacecraft established that Uranus rotates once approximately every 17 hours. The technique, explained Physicist James Warwick, can be likened to standing on a lawn and "feeling the water drops every time a sprinkler goes around." By tracking clouds in the atmosphere, Voyager discovered high-altitude winds moving around the planet at 220 m.p.h., more than twice as fast as they travel above...