Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Orleans, hellbent to board the next boat for the Amazon's mouth. But no boats are headed there, then or later, so young Samuel Clemens is stuck with writing about the Mississippi. There is only the most tenuous and delightful of connections with another kid, in Defiance, Ohio, a century later. This fellow, named Tommy Thompson, is an inspired, perhaps even crazed, tinkerer. He conceives that used frying oil could power engines and rigs a car that actually burns the stuff. He's set for a run across the continent, except that car, driver and passengers drip with sticky...
...undersea salvager, recovery was a different matter. Herndon's vessel went down 100 miles off the Carolina coast, somewhere in sea at least a mile and a half deep. When Tommy Thompson, by the early 1980s a marine engineer at the elite Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, became interested in undersea mining and salvage, technology for very deep recovery had not progressed much beyond the diving bell. This gadget, first developed in the 17th century, could go deep but do almost no real work...
...Ohio University is currently arguing with Ohio State University over the word Ohio. O.U. claims it owns the trademark for the word for any athletic use. Though most O.S.U. merchandise is emblazoned OHIO STATE, some items, including the cheerleaders' uniforms, simply read OHIO...
Harvard posted victories over the likes of Central Michigan, Kansas and Ohio State. It also suffered convincing defeats at the hands of third-ranked Fresno State, fifth-ranked Nebraska and ninth-ranked Stanford. Still, the Crimson returned to Cambridge confident that its effort against some of the country's best would make the team much more competitive against its East Coast rivals...
...recalls when Widener's doors were chained shut during the 1970 Harvard Square riot protesting the Kent State shooting of student activists in Ohio...