Word: meter
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...pleasant kind of humming. Happy, unself-conscious, slightly flighty and more than a little girly. It comes out whenever I halt the conversation to scribble in my notebook to catch up. And when I run out of the restaurant to feed the parking meter, she grabs the pad and writes, "Note to self: buy Felicity presents." She giggles and touches my arm and asks me lots of questions about myself. If all that weren't femme enough, she refers to herself by her nickname, Flicka; points out her favorite knitting store across the street; and admits that the night before...
After Scherf set the Harvard 10,000-meter record as a freshman, she had the opportunity to meet with the previous record holder. Now that the super sophomore has shattered Wiley’s 22-year old Harvard record in the women’s indoor 5,000 meters by 18 seconds, it seems only appropriate that a congratulatory call would be in order...
...captain Jessica Davidson. “She is very dedicated to swimming.”Harvard also received incredible performances from sophomores Lindsay Hart, and Samantha Papadakis, and senior Erin Mulkey.Hart captured the 200-yard backstroke and the 200-yard individual medley.Papadakis won both diving events, the one meter and three meter. In the three meter, she was neck and neck with a Kansas diver through the first four rounds, but pulled away during the final two.“[Papadakis] is extremely talented,” Davidson said. “She really stepped up and did a great...
...movement opens with a series of tonally ambiguous bursts invoking images of creation and the cosmos. For the first time, it seemed that the orchestra was entirely involved with the music, and the result was significant and exciting. The second movement is a difficult combination of duple and triple meter, and it gave the orchestra some trouble. The tempo dragged and notes were often out of place, but the oboes, clarinets and bassoons blended beautifully in the central trio section of the movement. It was the best the winds sounded all evening...
...scooting past nine-year-olds to become the U.S. champ. The fleet-footed freshman has flown as far as Germany to compete and has now won 30 championship titles in national contests. Recently, he won the 2005 Men’s Junior 5,000-Meter Race Walk Championships in under 23 minutes...