Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order at the Blarney Stone was brisket on an onion roll--a huge sandwich that came with a plate of home fries and a bowl of thick homemade soup. I ate it at the back of the restaurant, where I could watch the mailmen...
...astroturfs brillant green surface and black partitioning nets--which divide the cage into four areas--enable players to follow airborne balls better, while the inch-thick carpet provides a more reliable bounce than did the dirt floor, Paul A. Chicarello '82, a designated hitter, said yesterday...
...blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder. Out of the hole in the hill roared thick black smoke, fire, machinery fragments and a flutter of paper currency, the money ripped from the pockets of the seven dead miners below...
...South Pole in 1912, British Explorer Robert Falcon Scott was right enough when he called it this "awful place." But Antarctica, half again as large as the continental U.S., is also a world of spectacular beauty. Beyond its great central plateau, where the ice is more than two miles thick, are towering mountains, volcanoes, and glaciers as big as Rhode Island that creep inexorably toward the sea at rates up to two miles a year. There are even curious, snow-free "dry valleys" where the winds have sculpted the rocks into a phantasmagoria of surreal shapes...
...Sunday they brought home their first National title. To call the victory a fluke, or to compare it with Yale's solitary win in 1977, is to belittle an accomplishment which is likely to be repeated in the near future. Harvard will be in the thick of the fight next year, and the year after, and the year after. At least...