Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meter E.A.R.C. sprint championships on May 20 on Lake Quinsigamond and the four-mile race against Yale on the Thames at New London on June 17 mark the climax of the season. It is in the latter that Boyden will put his victory string on the line as the varsity goes after its third straight win over Yale. How good Yale will be remains a complete mystery at this point...
...ship was heated by friction and suffered tremendous strain, but the braking effect was distributed over thousands of miles of flight. "At the height of several tens of kilometers [one kilometer-.62 miles] above the earth." said Fedorov, "the spaceship's speed is reduced to a few hundred meters [one meter-1.094 yards] per second. With a shriek, it cleaves the air, rushing toward its preselected landing place. Parachutes open and the speed is reduced to a few meters per second...
...pages of month-old A.A.U. swimming handbooks and decided that they had wasted the purchase price. The pool at Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium was boiling with record breakers. Before the national indoor championships ended, every American short-course mark except the 440-yd. and 1,500-meter freestyle records was suddenly out of date. Among the new champions...
...with works slightly less complicated than the average pocket radio, the personal monitor has no switch; it is on all the time. Its tiny mercury battery is good for a month of steady operation. Now properly equipped workers will no longer have to take time off to read a meter or check a counter. Their personal monitor will give them the word. "It is intended to tell lab personnel whenever there has been a change of radiation level," says an Oak Ridge scientist. The workers put it more succinctly: "It tells us when to run like hell...
Saturday will also be the big day for the Crimson's only other entrants. Jeff Lewy and John Shelton, competing in the three-meter dive...