Word: metering
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...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...
...disappointing turn of events, Lambert was disqualified from the 200-meter dash final due to a false start...
Harvard had two fifth-place runs on the day—by co-captain John Traugott in the 1,500 (3:48.96) and the 4x100-meter relay team of seniors Eric LaHaie, John Meeker, Robert Burns and Lambert...