Word: mph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Adams, Washington and the other Presidentials. Despite the relatively low height, 6000 ft. in the Presidentials is desolate and often quite fierce for climbers. This area is known to have some of the severest weather recorded anywhere on earth--Mt. Washington has logged winds as high as 232 mph, the highest surface winds known...
...Friday heats, the 'Cliffe's new boat experienced difficulty with the 30 mph winds and the chop that dotted the course with whitecaps. In the preliminary race, water sloughed in at an alarming rate over the sides of the low slung boat. By the end of the race, the 'Cliffe eight had shipped five inches of water in the bottom of the craft, and finished behind Vesper, barely qualifying for the finals...
Smith led off the Harvard half of the second inning with a 400-foot wind-aided home run to left center field. LaCivita also took advantage of the steady 15 mph breeze coming from directly behind home plate as he stroked a triple to the right center field fence...
...speed limits for the village, 5 mph in downtown Wounded Knee and 20 mph in the suburbs. The new government also followed a prohibition policy. All liquor, which is illegal on Indian reservations, was poured out onto the brown Dakota soil...
...first thing I noticed as I drove through was a beautiful dark green Corvette Stingray, its engine making characteristic low rumbling noise, cruising effortlessly at 20 mph. (I found, much to my annoyance, that the speed limit was 25!) Then I passed an orange Vette, a bright yellow Vette, another and another. I thought something was dangerously amiss, but I soon discovered that there were 160 (count'em) Corvettes on campus, more than you or I have probably seen in an entire lifetime of playing the old car identification game which, in my case, drove both my parents absolutely crazy...