Word: hr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second, sped on for 7,000,000 years. Thirty thousand years ago it reached the fringe of the Milky Way. Four years ago it was inside Proxima Centauri, Earth's nearest star. Going fast enough to circle Earth seven times in a second, the light took only 5 hr. 30 min. to cross the outer solar system...
After the War Eleonora Sears discovered the pleasures of walking. She hiked from Boston to Providence. R. I. five times. Her best time over this 47-mile route was 9 hr. 53 min. In June 1934 she did it in 10 hr. 25 min. When asked whether she had been trying for a record, she replied: "It would be ridiculous to try for a speed record at this time of year, when it is so warm and muggy. I was just walking for the exercise." From Newport to Boston (73 mi.) her best time was 17 hours...
...Newark, no one was aware of the Hughes flight until the plane swept down into the floodlights, shortly after midnight. When timers informed Pilot Hughes he had set a new record of 9 hr., 25 min., 10 sec., beating Colonel Roscoe Turner's 1934 time by 37 min. 47 sec., he shrugged: "I wanted to go to New York, so I tried to see how fast I could do it. I don't think there was anything sensational about...
...famed woman amateur player in the world. Helen Wills Moody, was starting something else in San Fran cisco. She and Instructor Howard Kinsey set out to see how often they could bat the ball to each other without missing. Aiming at 5,000 times, they rallied steadily for 1 hr. 18 min., stopped at 2,001 (a record) because Instructor Kinsey had to give a lesson...
...From San Juan, Puerto Rico, went the huge Army Douglas amphibion Duck, covering the 919 miles in 7 hr. 12 min. to win another world record, for airline distance for amphibions...