Word: windings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gone with the Wind. Coach Jackson patiently worked to refine Woodhouse's galloping, head-bobbing stride ("Sometimes he'd have his shoulders almost up to his ears"). Last year, with a more relaxed style, Woodhouse pressed Morrow so closely that in three races the judges overlooked him completely for second because in photo finishes the two Abilene jerseys appeared as one. With Morrow graduated this year, Woodhouse equaled the world mark, ran a 9.1 race that will not count because he had a favoring wind at his back. "I've improved every year," says Woodhouse...
Slicks & Gusts. But the 500 is no joy ride. One slip, one tiny miscalculation, a sudden gust of wind, an oil slick on the track-any of these, at high speed, can bring death; the track's pavement and rails are covered with skid marks and paint scratches left by skidding, hurtling cars. In 50 years of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 50 people have died...
...from shape and whose beauty springs from mathematical curves possible only in modern reinforced concrete. Torroja is fond of walking his institute visitors under the sickle-shaped ribs of the pergola that spring from the outside wall and curve elegantly overhead like jets of water frozen in a high wind, explaining with professional pride that they are actually "Bernoullian lemniscates* with zero end curvature." Says Torroja, "Every mathematical curve has a nature of its own, the accuracy of a law, the expression of an idea, the evidence of a virtue...
Occasionally, the hard trading instincts of M.I.T.'s trustees have softened ever so little. The trustees once decided that the liquor industry was a good investment, decided to try whisky stocks. When Vance, Sanders got wind of the plan, it was horrified. A partner gathered up the cards of 1,200 M.I.T. shareholders, walked into a trustee meeting and threw them on the table. They represented Baptist institutions, Christian Scientists, Catholic convents, and other investors who might take a dim view of liquor-even in their portfolios. The trustees hastily backed down...
...resigned from the bank in 1908, when he was 49. Four months later he published a tale about a mole, a water rat and a scapegrace toad, called The Wind in the Willows. The London Times wrote stiffly that "as a contribution to natural history, the work is negligible." But Grahame's fable caught on with such varied readers as Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm, came to be one of those rare books recognized by both children and adults as a children's classic. It still sells about 80,000 copies a year...