Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarkable endurance and unfortunate patterns of plumage, their lower coverings often well above the acceptable limit. These creatures will often anticipate your route, staying just in front of you, offering a generous view of their poorly concealed hindquarters. Actually maintaining this view for more than a quarter-mile results in blindness and eventually death...
...aggressive first mile, and we really put in a good fight," coxswain Nancy M. B. Poon '01 said. "We're working hard, and we have a lot to look forward to this year...
...plugged in a computer, it might have blown out a circuit. The school has been rewired since then. Chief custodian Frank Schaffer is already inspecting the premises, moving back the picnic tables that the skateboarders clear out every weekend. He knows every inch of the place, from the mile of utility tunnels in the basement to the old attic that was once used as a rifle range. "This building is a living organism," he says. "It lives for the people inside...
...underneath this carnival-like atmosphere, there is a real reason why the Regatta is something special. Every boat--whether it represents a club, House, university, or nation--is part of a larger 3-mile parade. It is a parade evoking a unique combination of pride, pageantry and tradition...
...What's it like for you and the crews to go every year to such a big event? HP: Well, it's just a lot of fun. A three-mile race is a hard row. It's a pretty challenging row. If it's windy, it's even more challenging, but it's just...