Word: metered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year (without clouds), counting the total period of sunshine into a room, including direct as well as indirect rays. Indirect rays are . . . those striking the face of a room at an angle of less than 15° and . . . include rays which do not penetrate a bay window of one meter in width...
With his "corrected floor space" settled, the tenant turned to Schedule III and added up an arbitrary amount of floor space for "facilities and conveniences." A cold-water faucet in the hallway rated .25 square meters. Private flush toilets rated four square meters, non-flushing toilets only two. Adding up the "corrected" square meters of the three schedules and multiplying the sum by the fixed charge per meter, he arrived at his monthly rent...
Jacobs escaped a volley of vicious kicks only by getting a parking meter between himself and the youth. Patrolman Lawrence Brutti made the arrest a moment later...
From the one-meter board, Tom Drohan racked up 97.5 points for first place. Win Briggs followed him for second with 90.4, while Lehman took third for Tech with 75.4. Berke took teammate Gorman in the 100-yd. freestyle, and they swept in first and second...
Russ Greenwood '39 returns today for the three-meter dive. Ulen calls him the Crimson's "best all-time diver," and three consecutive firsts in the Eastern Intercollegiates from 1937 to 1939 bear out this statement. George Dana '36 and Henry Fitts '35 will join him when Gordon Wier, Wayne Barnet, and possibly Tom Drohan challenge the alumni on the board...