Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carry him up the building, Willig had designed two special T-shaped metal blocks that locked into a track used to guide the heavy scaffolding that carries window washers up and down the outside of the giant structure. He was roped to the blocks, and each of his boots rested in a strap that acted like a kind of stirrup. To go up a foot or so, Willig used a pulley system. He would move one block as high as he could reach and hoist himself up. Then he would unhitch the lower block, attach it above his head...
There is a class distinction here, however. Not many factories sponsor aerobics programs (though Jogger Jesse Bell, president of the Bonne Bell cosmetics firm, built a running track near his Cleveland factory, and paid employees $1 a mile for paddling around it, until some began lapping at the rate of $250 or more a month...
...positioning runners on treadmills and capturing their exhalations in plastic bags. The more oxygen used, the more work done before exhaustion, the better the subject's condition. Cooper found that he could approximate such tests by measuring the distance a runner could cover in twelve minutes over a track-1% miles for a man under 30 in excellent condition: 1.1 to 1.24 miles for a 45-year-old woman in fair shape...
John Ford," says Francis Ford Coppola, who has been both mentor and best friend to Lucas. "He doesn't really work a lot with his actors or tell them a lot. But he constructs his scenes so specifically, or narrowly-like a railroad track -that everything comes out more or less the way he sees it." Coppola considers Lucas "a pure film maker. He really only wants to put on film the things he loves. He has few pretensions about making 'great films' or 'great art,' and consequently he comes closer than most. I think...
Sophomore year, I sat in the top row and deftly employed a water-pistol during particularly tedious moments. For my junior year tests, I dropped marbles down the stairs--on the right track, but still not distracting enough. Last January, I achieved comic nirvana; I brought a slinky to finals, and started it off on the top stair, ten minutes before the three hours were up, and patiently watched those coils undulate down the steps, taking a good five minutes to get to the ground floor. I am glad that I am a senior--how could I top that, next...