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Word: miles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past years, students who wanted to go downhill skiing had to make the 20 mile trek to Whaleback, N.H. for fair slopes, and had to travel 50 miles to Killington, Vt. or Waterville Valley, N.H. for anything better...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Dartmouth Gets Snow-Making System at College's Skiing Area | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

...with Harvard coming into The Game a mile high and the Bulldogs wandering around with their tails between their legs, Cozza may have to wait until 1986 to reach triple digits...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Game, # 102 | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

...besides Stricker, the Crimson got a bad start in the race and by the one-mile mark, victory was out of reach...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Women Run 5th as Stricker Takes IC4As | 11/18/1985 | See Source »

...needed everyone to be in the top 25 at the half-mile mark, but they weren't there," Sheehan said. "It was an uphill struggle after that...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Women Run 5th as Stricker Takes IC4As | 11/18/1985 | See Source »

...mile circumference could embrace Manhattan, Barbados or (almost) Bahrain. Its 2 billion ft. of niobium-titanium wire could encircle the world 16 times. The 150 megawatts of power needed to operate it could light up a city of 15,000. And its price tag of as much as $6 billion could purchase half a dozen new space shuttles. All told, the superconducting supercollider (SSC), a gigantic particle accelerator that the Department of Energy may begin constructing somewhere in the U.S. before the end of the decade, would be the biggest, most elaborate and most ambitious physics project ever undertaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Colossus of Colliders | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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