Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start, Roseberg borrowed $40 from a brother-in-law, Irving Zeiger, and began buying materials to create a pill counter. Eventually he came up with a device that consists of a plastic turntable and a counterrotating gearlike disk. Pills are dumped on the turntable, forced into line by the disk, automatically spaced out for counting by a tiny photoelectric cell, and dropped into a pillbox...
...Dante scholar and professor of Romance languages at Yale offers a translation that tries to stay faithful to Dante's poetic rhythms but wisely avoids any attempt to match his terza rima rhyme scheme. As in many translations of classics, there are disquieting changes in well-known lines. Gary's familiar 1814 "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," for instance, becomes "Bid hope farewell, all ye who enter here." It may be more reflective, but it is less ominous and powerful. Leonard Baskin's murky, impressionistic black-and-white line drawings and washes fail to evoke...
...next stage dozens of donors were waiting to be screened by four or five nurses. There was no line. Instead, people just sat spaced out in two long rows until they felt they had really waited their turn. I did some light reading and struck up a conversation with the man who had been warming up. He told me how he missed his blood appointment that morning and had skipped lunch "to get this over with." He said he was an old pro at giving blood, and had once given two pints within three weeks. After he described in detail...
...Twelve penalties, six on each squad, were called in the final 13 minutes, and when McManama knocked Harvard's final goal past Eberly at 11:51, there were two Huskies in the penalty box. Joe Cavanagh and Steve Owen, members of Harvard's junior line, were sent off three minutes later. and the Crimson barely surrived their loss. plus inexcusably careless defensive play, to preserve the 6-3 victory...
...While this nomination is in line with the department's original recommendation a year ago, that Stauder be promoted to lecturer for the remainder of his three-year term. it is also based on the teaching requirements of the department for the coming year," DeVore added...