Word: propelled
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...first 400 meters. “They gained another five seats round the curve,” two-seat Dan Rasmussen said. “But then we remained steady with them, and gained a little ourselves in the last stretch.” That was not enough to propel Harvard out in front of Cornell, however. The Big Red won again by just over two seconds, with a 5:49.7 time, compared to the Crimson’s 5:52.0. “I think we knew going into it that it would be a tough race...
...Year. After Max Odom in 2000 and current tri-captain Bode Ogunwole in 2004, O’Connor is the third Harvard wrestler to win the award.Fellow Crimson wrestlers are impressed, but not surprised, by O’Connor’s successful season. His high school awards alone propel him high above rookie status. “Coming into this year, I knew [O’Connor] was going to do great things,” senior tri-captain Max Meltzer said. “But as we have gone through the year, I guess I knew something special...
...facility in Yamanashi prefecture, about 50 miles west of Tokyo. The repulsion created between magnets embedded in the U-shaped track and others embedded inside the cars causes the train to levitate 10 cm above the bottom of the track - "maglev" is short for magnetic levitation. The magnets also propel the train forward very, very quickly, in part because air creates less friction than rail. The Yamanashi test maglev set a world speed record for trains in 2003 at 361 mph, and it cruises...
...return of nine swimmers on Sunday helped propel the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team from third place to first place at the ECAC Championships at Blodgett Pool. Harvard put up a team total of 648 points while Marist College finished second with 589.5 points. Just nine athletes competed for the Crimson during the first two days of competition, as the Ivy League Championships in Princeton, N.J., pulled most of the team away from Cambridge. “We have to have two teams because you can only take a certain amount of people to each championship...
...represent Harvard in an upcoming battle of the bands competition in Boston. They perform about three times a month, and their biggest single, “Stormtroopers” (“I am a stormtrooper, I’m not a robot”), has helped to propel their fame in Boston’s underground indie-rock world. But Dern’s performamces have also brought him notoriety around Harvard, too. The Leverettite is well known around campus for having more than 300 Facebook.com groups devoted to him (with such gems as “Nate Dern...