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Three volunteers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., set a world record this spring when they spent 28 days in a pressure tank to simulate a dive 2,132ft. into the sea. To raise money for the American Heart Association, Ohio State University students played a 4,378-seat game of musical chairs last month and broke the old record of 3,728 chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Human Need to Break Records | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...Lexington. His appointment was doubly important to Naval aviation in view of the President's determination to dispense with the services of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. But flying Captain Kingachieved fame on the bottom of the sea. When the S-51 went down in 132ft. of water off Block Island in 1925 most Navy men thought it was there to stay. There were no precedents, no equipment for raising a 1,000-ton submarine from deep water in the open sea. Nonetheless a salvaging expedition under Captain King, then commander of the Submarine Base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: King for Moffett | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Discus throw--Won by Tyler (D), 132ft. 4 in.; second, Rich (D), 125 ft. 1-2 in.; third, R. T. Maynard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Spikemen Bow in Meet Featured by Startling Upsets | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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