Word: meter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring saw Yale take win and place, but some fancy diving artistry by Bob Asron and Tom Drohan pushed Harry Lockery of the New Havens down to third on the three meter board...
...event of the day was a 2,500-meter race for "women aces," featuring 40 French entries and seven Russians. The Russian entries fell into two types: the gaunt, harassed and rangy (like Champion Irene Zaitseva), and those built like truck drivers (two of them were, in fact, truck drivers...
...Square Meter in Heaven. This time the British sided not with the Egyptians, but with the Mahdi. The British knew how deeply the Sudanese hate the Egyptians, who still call them Abed (slaves) in memory of the times when Sudanese tribesmen were sold down the river to the slave marts of Alexandria and Cairo. The British also knew the value to Britain of the Sudan under sympathetic native rule...
Common gratitude would ensure Sir Sayed Abdul Rahman's sympathy. The British had rescued him from his father's disgrace, restored his family lands, given him a splendid palace. They had given him lucrative Army contracts for wood. When El Mahdi Pasha promised his followers a square meter in Heaven for every meter of lumber they felled, fanatic Sudanese woodsmen chopped trees with as much zeal as if they had been infidel heads...
...Room in Widener may be exceptions, but it is a safe guess that most Freshmen and Sophomores in the College today either don't know about it, or have a hazy idea that it is a place where long-haired graduate seminars get together to discuss technical niceties of meter and rhyme...