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Thirty feet below, the wind drove two-foot whitecaps upstream, and the surf crashed against the base of the bridge...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: 500 Defy Storm, Revel By The River | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

...small screwdriver used to adjust gyroscopes, General Electric had charged the Navy $780 apiece. New price: $45. For a rubber nose pad on a torpedo, Aerojet-General had charged the Navy $381. New price: $7.50. For a two-foot fiberglass cover for the radarscope of an A-6 bomber, Grumman had charged the Navy $1,800. New price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navy Bills | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...through it all. Harvard stayed open. In 1978 when the two-foot storm hit, the University closed down, but this year President Bok refused even to consider shutting down the College. "Kind of makes you proud to be a Harvard [student] doesn't knowing how much we care about your learning," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track . . . | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

They discovered a two-foot by three-foot box three feet below the surface at midfield and disconnected a device that would have triggered fire extinguishers full of paint...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Pranksters Set Stadium Trap...Almost | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

...wasn't at the Clarendon House, but he did receive a phone call. Bolles told the caller to go to the state capitol and went back to get in his car. He backed up a few feet, then turned his wheels. An explosion blew out the windshield, blew a two-foot hole under the driver's seat. Doctors amputated one leg, an arm, another leg, to save his life. He developed pneumonia. Finally, on June 13, he died. Curiosity killed Don Bolles...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Lonesome Death of Don Bolles | 10/1/1976 | See Source »

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