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With all due respect to Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, may I take the liberty of amending his quote to "nothing disastrous appears lobe happening." Changes are happening at the blink of an eyelash, too quickly for the human mind to perceive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1979 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Meyer ran a tough race himself. He was running sixth most of the way until he caught up to Columbia's Wally McNally, ran stride for stride with him for 500 yards, and outkicked him by a moth's eyelash at the wire...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Runners Boot Quakers, Lions | 9/30/1978 | See Source »

Freshman Don Pompan, playing at two in his first league match ever, turned in the most amazing performance of the day as he defeated Lion David Cooper by a gnat's eyelash--that translates to 3-6, 7-6 with a 5-4 tiebreaker (ulp), and 7-5. Pompan broke Cooper's service twice to win the last four games of the match, after fighting off two match points in the second set and charging back from 3-0 and 4-1 deficits in the third...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard Gives Lions a Double-Mauling | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

Dales was swirling his irons with a ragtime rhapsody to the piping winds and looked like he would run away with individual scoring honors. Then his putting touch began to unravel and he missed a slew of putts by about the width of a gnat's eyelash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linksters Wallop URI, Southern Connecticut; Dale, Fitzgibbons and Alexander All Shoot 76 | 4/22/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson's Brian McAndrews lost a hearbreaker in the 600, nearly losing a couple of limbs in the process. Not only did McAndrews lose the race to Princeton's Joe Libertelli, 1:13.26 to 1:13.27, but he came within a gnat's eyelash of sustaining a serious injury when the four top finishers collapsed in a heap after lunging for the tape...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Trackmen Blaze to Big Three Victory | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

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