Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November election, 92% of Lima's registered voters trooped to the polls and approved the project by the biggest majority (76%) ever given a bond issue in the city's history. Next day a parking meter outside the News sprouted a sign: HOILES, GO HOME! Said Laurence H. Larsen, executive vice president of Superior Coach Co.: "Everything possible has been done to alienate every single group in town since Hoiles took over. They couldn't have done a better job of it if they had planned it this...
...Place in the City. In Wilmington, Del, Traffic Engineer Robert A. Mitchell, hardened to frauds on the nickel parking meter, figured that the woman who shoved in her wedding ring must have been really frantic...
Slim (6 ft. 3 in., 160 Ibs.) Don Bowden had finally outpaced his luck. When he was a sophomore, a heel injury held him back; illness kept him from placing in the 1,500-meter run at the Olympics. Fortnight ago studies kept him from running with the four visiting four-minute milers in the Los Angeles Coliseum (TIME, June 3). But last week, he said, he knew he was ready. At 20, he sees no reason why he cannot eventually break John Landy's 3:58 world's record-but not this season. "I have very...
Other improvement awards went to Dyke Benjamin for the two mile, Bill Morris for the 1000-meter, and French Anderson for the 600-meter. Benjamin, a sophomore, lowered his time from this year, and placed fourth in the Hep-10:32.5 in his freshman year to 9:31.4 tagonals, held last week. Morris' lowest time was 2:17 this year, while Anderson's low time...
What made Lorca change from his popular combinations of the old romantic meter (the lines and construction in his Romancero Gitano are very like EI Cid) with inflamed Gongorisms from the seventeenth century and scenes from contemporary Andalusian life was not the influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that...