Word: end-to-end
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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From crest to crest the "longest" wave was set at 300 yards. (Let golfers picture a drive and a pitch; tennis players, 12 courts laid end-to-end; city-dwellers, 3 1/2 blocks). The time it took one wave to replace another was approximated at 20 seconds. "Longest" waves thus travel 15 yards per second, 40 miles per hour...