Word: meter
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That’s because the winner was former Crimson captain Nicky Grant ’02, now with Boston University. Grant, playing out the remainder of her NCAA eligibility while enrolled in graduate school at BU, reached a 58.78-meter distance to win an ECAC title for the Terriers...
Someday soon, some bright spark will make a video game version of E3, the annual games conference in Los Angeles. You will play a journalist running from booth to booth, trying to avoid being deafened by hundreds of booming sound systems. Replenish your energy meter with $10 hamburgers! Try not to stare at the scantily-clad Booth Babes! Find parking! The ultimate aim will be to play a game for more than five minutes without a company media rep telling you how great it is. If their presence overloads your hype meter, it's game over...
...years after I went blind at the age of 13, I sent away for a Braille book about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's ascent of Mount Everest. As I read, I imagined with fear and delight the two pioneers standing only 60 meters below the summit at the base of a 12-meter vertical rock face, later named the Hillary Step, desperately hoping it could be scaled. In 1953, so much of modern mountaineering was still to be discovered. Archaic clothing and tents made Everest's frigid temperatures lethal. Oxygen bottles were three times heavier than today's. Deadly...
...race neared the 1400-meter mark, the order of the field remained unchanged, with Princeton ahead of Cornell and Wisconsin and the Crimson not far behind...
...Black and White jumped out to an early lead, taking a five-seat advantage off the start. Radcliffe kept pushing, gaining open water at the 400-meter mark and extending the margin to two-and-a-half lengths by the Harvard Bridge, the halfway point of the race. The Black and White continued its pace for the rest of the course, winning by five lengths...