Word: size
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen says, "Our first weakness--it's no secret--is lack of size." Unfortunately, Allen understates. Harvard may not have seen a hoop team this small since they were playing with leather helmets out on Soldiers Field...
...collection of medical talent that accumulated there, two hours driving from the nearest settlement, was a testament to the size of the American health care establishment. Within 45 minutes, the accident victims had been looked over by two doctors and two nurses, bandaged by a service corpsman and given helpful advice by an Eagle Scout with advanced first aid training. An hour later the ambulances and police arrived...
Associates describe him as invariably good humored, calm and extraordinarily energetic. Every morning he swims 20 laps in the Ritz-Carlton's Olympic-size pool and shows up at his office by 7, where he makes his own coffee. He has long been active in Jewish affairs and is president of the World Jewish Congress...
...space and geometric calibration. What he wanted, and had found by 1947, was a much simpler, grander and more declarative kind of structure: opaque, ragged planes of color rearing up the surface, emphatic in their brush-work-none of the characteristic cubist tonal flicker-and engulfing in their sheer size. If cubism was the art of hypothesis, Still would contradict it with an art of crushing visual fact. In doing so he hoped to make a clean leap out of modernist history into images "not proven by a continuum," as he wrote to a friend in 1950: "I am myself...
...Crimson drew a starting slot in the middle of the line, and the whole team got out easily enough, considering the size of the field. After 100 yards, Murphy found himself in second place with Northeastern's Bruce Bickford (Bickford ended up a disappointing 85th...