Word: mile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bucks that says that Neil won't make it past the 20-mile mark," one would-be dry humorist says, slapping the table to reinforce the wager...
...Boston Marathon time again, the time when tens of thousands of locals (and not-so-locals) take to a 26-mile, 385-yard course from Hopkinton to the Boston Public Library and think about nothing but sex and water for two to five hours, while the rest of us cheer them on and feel about as good about our own physical conditions as whale caca on the bottom of the Dead Sea. Neil is going to be one of the twenty or thirty Harvard students joining the active masses tomorrow, and he is feeling the full force of our resentment...
...Course, there were the minor inconveniences--having to walk three-quarters of a mile to the Yard, for one. Our rooms have no molding or boards to hang things from...
Naturally, we eat many meals in the Quad, as the Freshman Union is almost a mile away. The students at Currier, Cabot and North Houses have generally been quite courteous and sympathetic to our plight, and have tolerated this invasion of first-years...
...endless moments the plane drifted silently, coasting peacefully a mile above our heads. And than, before our wondrous eyes, the plane dipped and twirled like a leaf as it descended towards earth...