Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, last week's races were merely warmups, and the 12-meter yacht that will defend the 116-year-old America's Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie will not be picked until the final trials in August. So Mosbacher's mistake might soon be forgotten-were it not for the possibility that the loss could be the only one Intrepid will ever suffer. Skeptics who considered how Architect Olin Stephens could improve his design for Constellation-the boat that beat Eagle in the 1964 U.S. trials, then went on to wipe up Britain...
...Vesper crew, whose shell had been ruined in an accident before the race, never challenged the Harvard oarsmen in the 2000-meter contest. But another Vesper fours-with-cox won the afternoon's other race for the Navy Cup; the Harvard oarsmen finished fourth...
...ammonia, a fog forms, changing the amount of light shining on a photoelectric cell and varying the amount of electric current that it produces. The current variation in turn increases the frequency of a beeping sound in the operator's headphones and produces a higher reading on a meter, warning him that there are men near by. Higher concentrations of ammonia-presumably produced by larger numbers of men-produce a denser fog and higher meter readings...
...devotees of the "second chance" have constituted a remarkable poetic pantheon. The Zeus of that lofty company is himself still alive, though he has long since had his say. Erza Pound, 81, now living in Italy, fathered modern English poetry, freed it from excessive strictures of meter, rhetoric and prosody. One of his earliest converts was T. S. Eliot, who sensed the dilemma of modern, urban and areligious man, and whose dry, ironic style and endless rhythmic ways of weaving contemporary sounds are echoed in virtually every poet's work today...
...moved out of the '20s; the boys are still thumping along mostly in a 4/4 beat. This old-fashioned conformity bothered Trumpeter-Composer Don Ellis, so he organized a 21-piece band in Los Angeles, beefed up the rhythm section (four drummers, three double bassists), and sent the meter flying. To the modern far-out sound of jazz, he has added an exciting rhythmic pulse by playing in meters with 5, 9, 11, 19 and even 27 beats to the bar. And he makes it sound completely natural...