Word: meters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard controlled the meet throughout, winning the first six events and piling up a 42-10 lead (after the one-meter diving) before switching on the cruise control and allowing Yale to win three of the final four events to make the score look respectable...
...meter Diving...
When she arrived in Cambridge, Pam could perform a front two-and-one-half off the three-meter board, but could only do it in tuck (legs bent and tucked tightly against the body during the somersaults) position. To learn to do it in pike (legs straight throughout) would add .2 (the difference between 2.1 and 2.3) to the dive...
Just as students simplify and reduct abstract concepts into clay, so does Scientology--according to the church's book What Is Scientology?-- determine accurately the invariable instrumental means." One of the instruments used to measure people's "honest and potential character" is an E-meter. The E-meter console sends 1.5 volts of electricity through two wires to two tin cans held in the hands of the student. The auditor sits facing the student and the dials of the console, and asks the student to consider certain questions. The student's reaction to these questions register on the dial...
...METER, according to Velona, measures the changes of resistance" within a person's body and the person's response to certain concepts or thoughts. "Everything has certain resistance," Velona said, standing over the meter. "All recollections have a molecular mass" which are registered on the E-meter and interpreted by the trained auditor. Velona said that the auditor, however, does not evaluate a person's response but "encourages a person to come to his own realizations...