Word: clock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most famous application of Ramsey's work is in the atomic clock, which uses the stable internal properties of an atom to define more accurately the units of time people use every...
...October 28, Kasparov will play an eight-person clock simultaneous exhibition. Three members of the Chess Club will play against the champion, Edelman said, including Vivek Rao '92, Issa Youssef '90 and Andrew H. Serotta '91. Kasparov will also face Anna Akhsharumova, one of the top woman players in America, an unannounced faculty member, an unannounced alumnus and two IBM computers...
...into the stained glasswindows only to be diffused into blues and yellowswhich filtered easily into the church. The lightsat in the people's hair as they lined up in thepews. It was the ritual that had driven her fromthe church, the Mass and a sermon every Sunday atten o'clock...
...clock on Sunday, I joined hundreds of Jews in Sanders Theater for Kol Nidre, the ritual prayer that begins Yom Kippur services. That evening I gained new insight into my religion...
...typical Chinese nursery school combines day attendees and quan tuo | (literally "whole care") students. From Monday through Saturday, with the exception of Wednesday evenings, a quan tuo student lives at his school around the clock, a situation no one seems to think the least bit odd. For despite filial devotion and the supposed centrality of family life, long separation is common in China. It is not rare for spouses to work in different cities and see each other infrequently. Similarly, far from signaling neglect, paying to deposit a three-year-old in another's care for a week away from...