Word: meters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race will be a close one with entries full of fast runners. Foremost of the host of favorites is William Bonthron of Princeton who upset predictions by winning both the 1500 meter and the 3000 meter in the I.C.4A. meet here at Cambridge last spring. He is one of the leading milers of the country, and is expected to win. The Harvard chances, however, seem very good this year. Robert S. Playfair '36 and Arthur S. Pier '35 lead the ten Crimson runners who are entered. Playfair is Harvard's best prospect in the race. Last year, he lost...
...know that wireless travels far into space because we have picked up radio echoes. I never heard any of my early messages come back; the first transatlantic letter 'S' is gone forever. But I have been bothered with round-the-world echoes, especially on the nine-meter wave. We have picked up short words encircling the globe several times. It takes one-seventh of a second for a word to girdle the globe. I have intercepted the word 'no' after it sped around the world several times. The trick is difficult with longer words. At times...
...McPhee's Sept. 4 comment, may I say: In the heart of New York City, by the shining big sea water, . . . Not the poem "Hiawatha" gave the rhythm of that item Yes, I know Longfellow used it, but not so in "Hiawatha" Couched in "Hiawatha's" meter, this is how you'd read that statement Bottles bought they by the trainload, but the kegs they did not order HAROLD POPPE Forest Hills...
...loan made by France to the Imperial Government, repudiated by the Soviet, was due for another airing. Even the Red Army was fairly peaceable last week. For weeks past two Moscow military factories have devoted their energies not to engines of death but to a colossal 25,000-cubic-meter gas bag. The balloon and its aluminum gondola was finished last week, only waiting good weather to attempt a stratosphere flight...
...wonders of the heavens took a taxi in the Square directing the driver to the Harvard Observatory. "Hurry." Evidently the driver thought she was a budding Annie J. Cannon and set off on a thirty-mile drive to the Blue Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass. As soon as the meter read over $2.00, the astrophile began to wonder, but the fare was $5.40 from the Square to Bond Street...