Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November 13 launch approached, a good part of the Center for Astrophysics revved up for the mass influx of raw data that soon would be arriving. All observation plans for and information analysis from HEAO-2's 0.6-meter reflection X-ray telescope are coordinated from CRA. It took a week for the first picture to arrive on the monitors in Room 306-B. That shot was of Cygnus X-1, a radiation source which many astronomers believe is a black hole, a compressed star with gravity so strong that light cannot escape from...
...loose and good-natured, is also self-deprecatory in a winning way. "Oh, for Christ's sake, sit down," she smiles at some folks in the audience attempting to give her a standing ovation. Also, to make sure she keeps close to her roots, she fixes a parking meter downstage as part of the show. "I really do hang out at the parking meter," she explains. She was even going to load it up with change to time her set, but she forgot. She just got too carried away with excitement...
...Philadelphia, on April 14, the Crimson boat trailed Penn by open water at the 1000-meter mark. Seven seat Tony McAuliffe remembers, "My head was really turned around at that point. I was thinking, 'This just doesn't happen to the J.V. lights...
Both leaders began the race without any problems, but Yale soon opened up a quarter-of-a-length lead which it maintained until the 500-meter mark...
...women in black settled again to about 34-35, but Yale moved out fairly quickly as Radcliffe, Wisconsin and Princeton battled for second down the first 500 meters of the 1500-meter course...