Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downey placed first in the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly, while Borden won the 50-yard breaststroke event. Sato's first came in the one-meter diving competition, an event in which Borden placed third...
Senior Nancy Sato and juniors Maureen Murphy and Kris Krendl are the team's tri-captains. Last year, Sato was ranked sixth in the East in both the one-meter and three-meter diving events...
...Curtin not only catches passes well, he is introspective and intellectual. He's a different kind of football star. He'd just as soon talk about the meter of a poem as the yard on a football field. His copy of Yeats' Collected Poems every bit as important to him as Coach Joe Restic's playbook...
Auden was always more interested in experimenting with syntax than with things like meter and stanza and he was content to pour his unusual grammar into the molds of sonnet, quatrain and blank verse. His chief experiments in Thank You, Fog are with verbs. Poets who write in English, he tells us in one of his "Shorts," "can very easily turn nouns, if we wish, into verbs." He proceeds to do so with gusto, not only to nouns but almost every unit of syntax he can get his hands on. Some examples from a single new poem, "Archeology:" "vacancied long...
...Dickinson will ever develop much individuality (even if they manage to stay on the air the whole season), although it is logical to assume that the women who are pioneering in police work at the detective level these days are likely to be rather more idiosyncratic than the average meter maid. Certainly they are more interesting than Graves' jive-talking, hip-swinging, street-smart chick-a currently modish figure in blaxploitation movies. Dickinson, to be sure, is a little less stereotyped, but her show's creators are undecided as to whether she should be den mother...