Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Major surprises came in the three-meter dive and the 200 butterfly. Showing the finest form of his career, varsity diver Jeff Lewy stole top honors from Navy veteran Wallace Guthrie...
Pathetic Fallacy. Modern education has deprived all but very senior readers of a schoolbook knowledge of rhetoric; few nowadays can tell the difference between an ANAPEST and an Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded...
...University of California at Los Angeles, is a crusader whose stamp-out-sound vendetta started 38 years ago while he was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate with a thesis on the physics of hearing. With his trusty, ever-present sound-level meter, Knudsen tours the world, makes surprising discoveries. He once measured a noise level of 90 decibels* at a U.C.L.A. faculty tea. In the surf at Santa Monica, he registered a 3-ft. breaker at 80 decibels from a distance of 50 ft., and noted that the high-pitched, cracking noise...
...most notable members of the Marblehead outfit will not take to the water: U.S. 5.5 meter Olympic champion George O'Day and sailmaker Ted Hood. The Crimson's chief threat will probably be low visibility and freezing spray...
...notably mediocre one meter diving contest, Jeff Lewy led Ric Johnson and Brown's Bill Alderman with 64.83. Highest score for a single dive was six. Fred Cooley touched out Bruin Tom McMullen to take the 100 free in a singularly inspired, but slow...