Word: medica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muscular, close-cropped literature student at Nippon University. In the all-Japan swimming championships at Meiji Shrine pool, Furuhashi thrashed out the 400-meter free style in 4:38.4, three-tenths of a second better than the world record set in 1934 by the U.S.'s Jack Medica. Supreme Command Allied Powers officials thought that Furuhashi's mark would be internationally recognized, making him the first postwar Japanese athlete to attract overseas attention. Overnight, Furuhashi became the toast of Tokyo. An earnest office-worker wrote to the Osaka newspaper Asahi: "Each of us must become a Furuhashi. Herein...
Howie Johnson, the Eli captain, who is considered the best all-around swimmer in the country, will be trying for Johnny "Tarzan" Weismuller's world record of 51 seconds in the 100 yard free style and Jack Medica's N.C.A.A. time of 2 minutes, 9.6 seconds in the 220. That he will succeed in his attempt is a good bet for he has already been as low as 51 flat for the 100 in a relay this season and has hit 2 minutes 9.7 seconds...
...Johnson, Yale has the man most likely to break Johnny Welsmuller's record for the 100-yard free style event, and a performer who could well equal or better the amazing performance of Jack Medica of Washington who stole the show the last time the Indoor Athletic Pool was the scene of the swim events. The Yale 400 yard medley relay quartet will also aim to break its own world's record of 3:26:6, set against Brown this season...
...Materia Medica...
...round useful crop. Yet its widely publicized new industrial uses still consume only about 2% of the U.S. crop, most of which will go for purposes known to the Chinese as far back as 2838 B.C., when it was called China's greatest legume in a materia medica written by the Emperor Shen-Nung ("The Heavenly Farmer...