Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freshman Loni Sherwin won the pole vault at 2.75 meters. Sophomore Mary Unsworth finished third in the mile at 5:02.48. And junior thrower Kristy Johnson came in third in the shot at 12.10 meters...
...players are divided between the wealthy superstars and those lower on the totem pole, while the teams are divided between the cash cows and organizations struggling in smaller markets, he says. Such divisions made an already complex struggle all the more difficult...
...Roosevelts represent the opposite pole. Their marriage had perhaps not enough heart. Eleanor was the "eyes and ears" of her wheelchair-bound husband, his pipeline to African Americans, Jews and other disfranchised people. Her middle-aged, maternal image gave the New Deal its most compassionate face. In 1940, F.D.R. dispatched Eleanor to the Democratic Convention to quell a revolt against his choice of political outsider Henry Wallace as running mate. "This," she told the convention, "is no ordinary time," and the force of her presence ended the crisis...
...meter hurdles and placed second in the 55-meter dash. Classmate Sam Hornblower won the 200 while Nnamdi Okike won the 400. In the field events, freshman David Grimm won his event--the 35-pound throw--and classmate Aaron Snead led the way in a Harvard sweep of the pole vault...
...life sciences, ranging from single-cell organisms, like bacteria and yeast, to the complexities of the human brain. All this wonderful biological frenzy was unimaginable when I first entered the world of genetics. In 1948, biology was an all too descriptive discipline near the bottom of science's totem pole, with physics at its top. By then Einstein's turn-of-the-century ideas about the interconversion of matter and energy had been transformed into the powers of the atom. If not held in check, the weapons they made possible might well destroy the very fabric of civilized human life...