Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...city of Seattle did the predictable, wrapping the three-day meet in endless fog and drizzle. The Crimson's foremost triumverate of Darlene Beckford, Kristen Linsley, and Ellen Gallagher finished one, two, three for Harvard, all landing in the top hundred amongst a fiercely competitive field. And coming into the meet ranked 20th in the nation as a team, the Harriers obliged by finishing 20th overall...
...field of 56 competing teams, the Harriers' 20th place finish was respectable, indeed, and when one considers that everyone of the top 25 teams except for Harvard was a large state school, the harriers' national debut was no less than phenomenal...
...Little Red Riding Hood legend, with Cleese as Ms. Hood and the rest as seedy rapists; and best of all, another filmed skit wherein the German philosophers (Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, et. al.) played soccer against the Greek philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Archimedes, etc.). In appropriate costumes, they dashed onto the field and fell immediately into deep personal contemplation, until Archimedes yelled "Eureka!" and scored. The Germans disputed the goal, claiming it may have existed only in the imagination ... you get the picture...
Cambridge got its first taste of the fiscal effects of the tax-cutting Proposition 2 1/2 yesterday, when city officials opened field bids for the renewal of a bond issue to renovate city schools...
...Vleck, 81, physicist regarded as the "father of modern magnetism"; in Cambridge, Mass. Van Vleck was the first to indicate the significance of "electron correlation," or the interaction between the motions of electrons; and his 1932 book, The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities, remains a classic in the field. His research, for which he was a co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics, helped explain how a foreign atom invades the symmetrical structure of a crystal, and was basic to the development of modern computer memory systems...