Word: lapse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In North Sydney, athletic (5 ft. 8 in., 151 Ibs.) Sylvia thrashed to world butterfly records for 220 yds. and 200 meters in 2:40.3. At the national championships in Hobart, Tasmania, she chased Australia's lisa Konrads so closely in the 880-yd. free style that 14-year...
Dyke Benjamin, barely recovered from a leg injury which has hobbled him all season, ran a splendid 9:28.9 in the two-mile to finish second to John Morrison, who set a Yale and Coxe Cage record of 9:26.3. Benjamin had not been able to run at all until...
Segregation's signposts last week: In Norfolk, the city council voted 6-1 to cut off operational funds in all school classes above the sixth grade, beginning Feb. 2. Affected: 7,173 junior and senior high school students (1,914 white, 5,259 Negro) in 36 schools-boosting to...
Without any doubt the starts of the meet were Ron Delany of Ireland and John Thomas of B.U. Delany, wearing the green of his home country, gave the enthusiastic crowd a thrill with one of his patented come-from-behind triumphs in the K. of C. Mile. He moved into...
DuBois' remarks set off a storm of indignation in Britain, and the embarrassed Rhodesian Athletic Association overruled DuBois and declared Muleya would be allowed to compete. Their decision was not wholehearted. Before the race, Muleya was pointedly left out when the other competitors were presented to the Governor. Then...