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Word: mehl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that amateurish performance, long wartime absence from competition hadn't hurt MacMitchell's legs. Nor had war increased his slow heartbeat; MacMitchell's still pumped at a tardy 43 beats a minute. What he needed most was crack competition. Ready to oblige: Wisconsin's Walter Mehl, conqueror of Glenn Cunningham, who was out of the Navy and in training; ex-Dartmouth speedster Don Burnham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Track Snaps Back | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Shortage Reportage. In Kansas City, Mo., somebody broke into Ernie Mehl's auto, made off with a dog bone. In Brook lyn, N. Y., Daniel Tierney was haled into court for lambasting his wife with a beefsteak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: How to Be Roomy | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Finn was unbeatable. In five previous appearances in a nationwide tour for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund, he had looked like an average U. S. trackman. Twice (in two-mile races) he had been defeated: once at Kansas City by Wisconsin's ginger-haired Walter Mehl, once at Ann Arbor by Michigan's Ralph Schwarzkopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pony Express | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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