Word: length
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson crossed the finish line in a swift 5:51.8, a full four seconds--about a boat length and a half--ahead of the Big Red and 14.1 seconds ahead of the Quakers...
During the last 500 meters, the Crimson improved its lead over Cornell from a little less than a length to more than a boat length and a half. Penn finished sorely off the pace, nearly five point lengths behind Harvard...
...lost-in-the-big-city caper. But no, "Losing Isaiah" draws its plot from the topical problem of surrogate motherhood. How did I know? Luckily, I saw the subheading: "Who Decides What Makes a Mother?" Yes, these titles have become so vague that a whole other title of unlimited length--defeating the entire original objective--becomes necessary...
...lightweights (6:15.90) locked up its sixth Secretary of the Navy Cup with a three boat length trouncing of the University of Toronto...
...planet Earth appear one at a time on different screens while the voice talks about Creation. The images bubble from screen to screen, syllable, when the language utters the words "physical" and "physiological." A rope creeps across nine screens while the voice drones on about the particularities of length and measurement. When Heidegger's text contradicts itself--"But space and time do not serve only as parameters"--the screens go blank. Then the images start rippling from left to right, change direction and slow down, as Heidegger winds his way through more of his convoluted ramblings. Then the voice stops...