Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Derby, the starting line used to be 60 ft. back of where the track straightens out for the straightaway in front of the stands. This year it was moved forward 40 ft. but it was still on the curve and the horses nearest the inside rail, though they still had an advantage in not having to run quite so far as outside horses, still faced the risk of being pocketed. War Admiral, who likes to lead from start to finish, drew the post position. One main question of the race, therefore, was whether his jockey, Charley Kurtsinger, could...
...first Derby victory on Twenty Grand in 1931 set a track record of 2:01 4/5. Last week's running, in 2 :03 1/5, was, except for that one, the Derby's fastest, the more remarkable because the new starting line gave War Admiral 40 ft. less distance in which to acquire top speed before reaching the timing post...
...first in irritation then in amazement, he took a red rubbery roll of cloth and a heap of small sticks from his duffle, put the sticks together in a simple frame, shoved it into the red material, tugged here, patted there and in ten minutes had a trim, 17-ft. boat shaped like an Eskimo kayak. Two more sticks merged into a double-ended paddle. The hiker stripped to a bathing suit, stowed his clothes forward in his little craft, stepped agilely aboard and shot away into the rapids. Instant later he vanished in a spate of spray round...
Killers of the Sea shows Caswell wrestling and subduing a 12-ft. bottle-nosed killer whale, a gigantic snapping sea turtle, an octopus, a sawfish and a tiger shark. There are many repetitions of the dramatic moment when, spying some deep-sea enemy, Caswell, "The Man of Steel, G-Man of the Deep," rips off his breeches and dives to the attack, knife in teeth. Audiences will guess that some energetic harpooning of the monsters has preceded Caswell's scrimmages: the fish stay on the surface to be photographed in a manner fish seldom consent to unless submergence...
Southern California's track team: a dual meet with Stanford, 74½-to-56½, in which Southern California's two star pole-vaulters, Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows, tied for a new world's record of 14 ft. 8½ in.; at Palo Alto...