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...however, did not dominate throughout. In the first 45 minutes of play, the Crimson controlled the ball, missing two goals--one by the width of a post and another by the length of a goalie's outstretched...

Author: By John Beilenson, | Title: Booters Fall Short Again As URI Rolls to 2-1 Win | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

...approaches the planet, the instrument will be aimed through the rings at Delta Scorpii, a far-off star. By measuring disruptions (or blinking) of the starlight caused by the intervening ring material, the scientists should get the most precise data yet on the number of rings, their density and width and the size of the stuff they are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Making a Second Pass at Saturn | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...proposed code is based on a principle of retribution. A murder victim's relatives could kill the murderer after obtaining permission from a religious judge. In case of mayhem, the victim could inflict on his assailant a comparable injury, which must be exactly similar in "width and length" to the original wound. The code covers a number of contingencies: "For the severance of a right hand, the assailant's right hand must be severed. If the assailant does not have a right hand, his left hand may be severed. If he does not have a left hand either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Terror in the Name of God | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...like a giant jigsaw puzzle," he explains, pottering around in a pair of tartan carpet slippers. Bambridge makes large drawings of the more complicated bits-perpendicular tracery, buttresses, gables, turrets and pinnacles. From the blueprints, he designs each stone individually on a numbered job card marked with height, width, length. There is also a scale drawing to show the apprentice stonecutter what the finished stone should look like. "To be a good mason you must have an eye for surfaces," says Bambridge. "You must visualize the finished job before you start, so when you drop down into the stone with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Mortar and the Cathedral | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...cannonballs. "I was an impatient person before I came here," he says with a grin. "Now I'm building something to last ten thousand years." Then he's off in a flurry of stone chips as he puts down his first draft, a half-inch cut, the width of the chisel, along the stone's edge. When he began with Bambridge, it took him three days to make an ashlar. Now he can turn one out in 15 minutes. Jamieson, an ex-butcher, has completed 18 months of his four-year apprenticeship. He finished second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Mortar and the Cathedral | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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