Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity 2000 meter final, Harvard trailed Navy by two lengths and was also a quarter of a length behind Wisconsin, which crossed the finish line in the place position. Cornell, the other finalist, was fourth...
...tech girl, on the other hand, is usually busier. She has to "ride the gain", seeing that the meter on the control board doesn't coast up into the red area which means that listeners are hearing an unpleasant shrill shriek instead of music. And between shows, when very often one theme has to be faded down, another theme faded up and down, and the first record for a show started all within about two minutes, the tech girl often wishes she bad three arms. The tech girl also has to "cue" a record, seeing that it starts...
Philadelphia's slush permitted no record-smashing, but Princeton's Albin Rauch won the 400-meter hurdles in 53.3 sec., a time that would look good even under blue skies...
...orderly peak in Wadi Shaib. Last month, local police patrolling the road to Jerusalem reported that it was walking away. Government officials at Amman at first viewed the report-and the cops-with suspicion. Then they went to have a look. Sure enough, there was a 40,000-square-meter chunk of mountain moving majestically down the valley in a slow-motion landslide. By nature's whimsy, fig trees that had been on one side of the road were now on the other, and bean fields had moved intact to new locations...
...Country Club dance, symbolize Austin's transition from naive upper-middler to a hunted animal. And as his investigation gets nearer the truth, Captive City illustrates just how police pressure can be put on any reform drive that gets too embarrassing. Cambridge residents may recognize the "parking meter routine"--where police suddenly become overzealous in enforcing traffic regulations on certain cars...