Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson sailors Walter Cronin and Jerry Moulton have become the surprises of the 12 square meter Sharpie competition for Olympic berth. The two sailors currently rank in third place after two days of racing...
Polish Pratfall. During pre-race physical exams in Warsaw, Russia's Yevgeny Klevtsov grabbed a machine designed to test his grip, squeezed the needle right off the dial and immediately began bawling for a meter that could show just how strong he really was. The grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod...
...result of all this effort is a new figure for the equatorial radius of the earth: 6,378,260 meters (3,444 nautical miles)*instead of the 6,378,388 meter figure that had been generally accepted. The Army says that the slight difference will be of use in predicting the orbit of the artificial satellite. This is true, but improved knowledge of the earth's size and shape will also be useful to dispatchers of long-range guided missiles...
...international nautical mile (6,076.10 ft.) is used on long-distance charts. For purposes of navigation it is considered one minute of longitude, although it is derived from the standard meter, not directly from the earth's circumference at the equator...
Orgel's three poems are echoes of other poets, other places and times, and other-worldly concerns, all turning on well-formed words. The poet's experiments in mood, meter, and word are seemingly unrelated, however, both to each other and to the reader, so that each aspect, while often interesting in itself, never becomes related to a complete poem. Typical of this difficulty is the use of an off-beat second line in what should seemingly be a regular ballad form. The variation is intriguing, but it does not help the overall effect...