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Since track meets can often be doped out with a pencil, the Cadets should have little difficulty disposing of the varsity and Princeton today. They won last year's meet with 79 points, to 37 for Harvard and 22 for the Tigers. And they later grabbed the indoor Heps title with 48 points. The Crimson was fourth with 29 1/2 points in that meet, and Princeton with 10, finished seventh...
...test paper which covers all spaces except those where correct answers are supposed to be marked. Both the test paper and the stencil are then placed in a slot up against a panel of thick copper pins. When the machine is turned on, the pins pick up all pencil marks that show through the spaces in the stencil, because pencil marks made with special pencils, conduct electricity. The rest is simple. The machine just "counts" the number of electrical impulses and then stamps it on the exam paper...
...before his death in 1848, Cole explained that "American scenes are not destitute of historical and legendary associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...
Beethoven with Guitar Strings. In one camp, Goldberg assembled 14 violinists and a flutist, a piano with 19 keys missing, and a harmonium. Salvaging and pasting together scraps of toilet paper and margins from book leaves, and writing with only a tip of lead from a pencil, Goldberg scored from memory the entire Beethoven Violin Concerto for his little orchestra. He gave the woodwind and bass parts to the harmonium, and gave the piano "all the noise of an orchestra...
...technique consists of using a Geiger counter to locate and outline abnormal tissue in which has been built up a concentration of radioactive phosphorus. A new type of counter the size of a pencil was specially designed for this purpose...