Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...three-mile course along the Charles is patterned after the English regattas, with boats being released every ten seconds and racing against the clock. Unlike conventional crew races, the Head tests the steering ability of the coxswains as well as the endurance of the oarsmen, and permits a much larger field of entries...
...Sept. 28] that "Ideally the Palestinians . . . would like to turn the clock back to the'' days before the Balfour Declaration pledged the creation of a Jewish homeland...
...ways to reduce the power of the dollar. At last month's International Monetary Fund meeting, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing caustically compared the world's reliance on the inflation-eroded dollar to the act of setting a watch "by a clock that is out of order." Last week a committee headed by Luxembourg's Prime Minister, Pierre Werner, handed in a report suggesting how the Common Market countries can create a new "Eurocurrency" that would acquire some of the privileges and powers of the dollar...
Mather has no artwork, either. Although Carlhain designed some genuinely imaginative art for the House (an enormous clock to fit inside the library's circular staircase, a huge dining hall mural spewing skim milk from trompe l' oeil spouts), all of it was eliminated in the budget trimming which also deprived the student rooms of carpeting and closet doors. Noise pollution, too, is a problem: there is no division between bedrooms in the doubles, and it has been suggested that at Mather, the sound of one hand clapping in the Dining Hall can be heard in the Junior Common Room...
...obligation that I, personally, must fulfill, and in which I could not let anyone else take part." Once, to ensure the arrival on deadline of a manuscript by his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, he crawled out of bed to retype it for her, finishing at 6 o'clock in the morning...