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About 11 p.m. Saturday night, someone banged on a fire door and it set off the alarm accidentally, Jonathan Band '81, a Canaday resident, said. Band said the alarms usually go off when someone presses on the lever to open the door...
...budget is an engineer's document with no flashes of inspiration or insight but with a cautious and thorough probing of the national machinery, a bit of tin; kering here, a new part there, a yank on a lever or two and a squirt of the oilcan...
...football team joins the Glee Club, Collegium and other campus groups in asking Harvard to divest its shares in banks lending money to South Africa. "But money is the only lever we have," argues Harvard treasurer George Putnam...
...more than 270,000 votes-or 2.2% of the total. Over the following decade the party was strong enough to elect several Congressmen, a few Governors and lots of local officials. In last year's election, a paltry 15,893 voters-.02% of the total-pulled the Prohibitionist lever. Moreover, the party, which was formed in 1869 and is the nation's third oldest, has not elected anybody to anything since the days when people drank their whisky out of teacups. What to do? Last week the party did what many another stumbling enterprise has done: changed...
...longer legs relative to total body length and that lower legs were proportionately longer, while thighs were shorter but more muscular than those of whites. "In jumping, the longer leg is evidently an advantage," Dr. Metheny wrote, "since [he] could raise his leg higher. Applying the principle of the lever, the longer lower leg can develop greater velocity at the end and serves as a longer lever with which to push off the ground, thus increasing the distance over which the force can be applied." The same general rules, Metheny found, applied to blacks' arms: on the average, blacks...