Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orioles brought the Pirates a full measure of good days and bad days, but the last and best day belonged to Willie Stargell. In a dramatic seventh game, Stargell hit the home run that won the world championship for Pittsburgh and with it MVP honors for himself for the second time in as many weeks. At 38, the Pirates' captain batted .400, drove in seven runs and pounded three home runs, adding four doubles to set a World Series record for extra-base hits. Perhaps more crucial, the imposing but soft-spoken first baseman helped to shore...
...consequences of such fealty to commerce were apparent from the first game. It was postponed by chilly rain, and a crew of teen-agers was pressed into mopping up Baltimore's Memorial Stadium with towels. Despite that effort, the Orioles and the Pirates committed three errors each. Pirate Second Baseman Phil Garner let in the winning runs in the first inning when he tossed a simple double-play throw clear into left field...
...cloud tops on its way to Uranus-some 1.6 billion miles out there. Science now has an electron microscope that can magnify 20 million times and so can photograph a particle with a diameter of about 4 billionths of an inch. Computers can do 80 million calculations a second (and ostensibly 6.9 trillion a day). Other recent news: a suspicion that the proton, a basic natural building block, may be unstable. It may indeed be decaying at such a rate that it would peter out in a million billion billion billion years. The effect of that notion is finally...
Steven L. Abrams '80, elected in February to the assembly, ran for and won a second seat in elections held last week at South House...
Abrams said he disagrees with McDonough's interpretation of the assembly's constitution, but added he would relinquish his second seat...