Word: meters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foundation of the Integraph is a watthour meter of the same type as is commonly used in homes for recording electric power Integration is merely a mathematical way of expressing the sum of a series of numbers which vary according to a given equation. The mathematician, in using the machine to do away in an afternoon with months of calculating, plots equations on paper which is passed slowly under pointers in the 35-foot apparatus: Operators stationed along the length of the machine keep the pointers on the curves, and as these pointers move up and down, the power flowing...
...best, course of action, therefore is if one can afford it, a taxi, thus enabling a person to see many quaint spots of the city and to experiment in the naive taxi rates in Boston, a system which has its basis on the theories that every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars and lessen the distance in space, and that the longest way round is the shortest way home. for the pedestrian--for who is not? there is always the river. Follow the river, says the oldest...
...gallant attempts to lower the world's mile mark in 1923 and 1925. Both covered the distance in 4 minutes 15 seconds. Since Nurmi returned to his Scandinavian home, Wide has defeated the "Flying Finn". Last night the great Swedish runner failed by 20 seconds to lower the 3000 meter record, in a meet at Portland, Maine...
...Here we are", he cried, taking the taxi meter from its niche in the hall of poverty and placing it slightly above the average. "You are now at Santa Claus' home...
...world's records. Yale took two championships? the half-mile varsity and one-mile freshman relays. Columbia won the two-mile varsity relay. Anthony J. Plansky, herculean Georgetown Universityite, retained his decathlon championship with a new meet record of 7,169.16 points for the ten events?100-meter dash, shot-put, high jump, broad jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and. 1,500-meter...