Word: poled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attitude was to train through the meet," Haggerty said Saturday Pre season training has already paid off for sophomore Rudy Bontic, whose 16 ft, 0-in pole vault gained him Harvard's only first place finish in a field event Bontic's goal is still 18 inches away; he wants to clear 17-ft, 6-in and qualify for the Canadian Olympic team...
Harvard's Steve Pinney took second in the pole vault with a personal best...
...1790s, revolutionary France tried to bring order to the existing hodgepodge of weights and measures by adopting the metric system. Its scientists confidently set the meter as 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the North Pole and the equator. Making that measurement, however, turned out to be impossibly difficult not only because the earth is far from a perfect, unchanging sphere but because of France's internal turmoil. The government's surveyors were arrested as royalist spies, narrowly escaping the guillotine...
Showing more versatility than flash, Brown climbed up AT&T's corporate telephone pole step by step, going through 23 jobs in nine cities. He became president of Illinois Bell Telephone in 1969 and earned a place in AT&T lore by making service calls during a repairmen's strike. After becoming chief financial officer of the parent company, he developed innovative ways to reduce AT&T's debt. As president, he began pushing AT&T forward rapidly in such advanced fields as fiber optics and electronic voice recognition...
...months, the 2,249-lb. satellite has been tirelessly circling the earth, speeding from pole to pole once every 103 minutes at an altitude of 563 miles. Unlike most satellites, it has kept its eyes not on the earth below but on the vast expanses of the universe. During each orbit it surveys a different slice of the sky, obtaining a nearly complete picture of the heavens. Last week, at a jubilant press conference in Washington, D.C., the multinational team of scientists and engineers responsible for the orbital telescope known as IRAS (for Infrared Astronomical Satellite) reported that they...