Word: metering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time this winter bad luck stalked the mile relay team as a fall and the subsequent bad pass prevented the Crimson quartet from gaining anything better than a fourth in the 1600 meter relay...
Special mention goes to Henry Marcy whose last minute sprint was begun just too late to exchange his second for first place in the 3000-meter steeplechase, and Freshman Mason Fernald who gained a fourth place for himself in the 40 meter hurdles...
...attachment on the receiving sets a reed adjusted to this pitch is set vibrating. That action trips a relay circuit, starts a small induction motor which gradually adds an inducted load to the general power load. Overloading is thus eliminated and the voting current is recorded on a special meter. This automatic operation calls for no action on the part of the listeners. To get "Yes" and "No" ballots it would be necessary, of course, for the listeners to push buttons, but the fact that an auditor is listening in may be taken as approval of the program...
...chance to win any event was right here, for Northrop has been coming along with the two Cornell stars. Al got a fifth in the Outdoor Intercollegiates last season after he had passed the peak of his form; and previously he had doubled to win the 800 and 1500 meter races against Yale. It was Northrop, too, who gave Gene Venzke such a terrific battle in the Heptagonal games at the Stadium last May. If he has approached any such form this year, and apparently he has, this should be a wonderful race...
...glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with a run-off field, snow-blanketed at its base. The process will be the same employed at the Boston and New York indoor winter sport shows, only on a much bigger scale. The artificial ice-manufacture and its sprinkling over the big 60-meter jump, if it becomes necessary, will be setting a new mark in sporting annuals and the sight in itself will draw a host of spectators...