Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's time for the 2000 meter course was 7:05 with the Minutewomen left far behind in Radcliffe's wake...
...with the race last week, today's contest will cover the full 2000 meter Basin course, a departure from the 1000 or 1500 meters that the women usually race. Baker said he wants the 2000 meter distance in order to have a longer race, but at a lower cadence, in preparation for the upcoming races against Princeton and Yale, which will be 1500 meters...
Harvard below off the line sprinting to a one length lead over Washington by the 500 meter mark. Though the Crimson dominated the 2000 meter bout it was unable to move more than a couple of extra seats on Washington for the duration of the race...
...idea of founding the chair. According to the terms of the gift, the University was to choose each year "without limits of nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation," a lecturer on poetry. But this didn't mean poetry in the narrow sense of verse, meter and rhyme. The bequest explicitly states that "Poetry shall be interpreted in the broadest sense, including, together with Verse, all poetic expression in Language, Music, or the Fine Arts, under which term Architecture may be included...
...birthday doggerel she composed for herself last week. "It couldn't matter less," she laughed, "now that it's out." Still a vigorous defender of the glories of housewifery, the 1961 Pulitzer prizewinner had little praise for modern poets. "They stopped using rhyme, and they stopped using meter," she complained. "They're just kind of wandering about, like Erica Jong." Slowed down recently by a stroke and pneumonia, McGinley has all but given up writing her own agile light verse. She spends her time in her Manhattan apartment reading and watching her favorite TV shows...