Word: meter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer Van Meter, 29, got his start robbing trains in his 'teens. He met Dillinger in Indiana State Reformatory in 1925. Van Meter became Dillinger's body guard, slugged doctors into treating his chief, robbed police arsenals with him, lent a hand in bank robberies...
...four days of splashing up & down the 50-meter pool at Detroit's River Rouge Park last week the best girl swimmers and divers in the U. S. accomplished the remarkable feat of setting no new U. S. record. It was the first time on record that a national Amateur Athletic Union championship meet had failed to produce at least one. This indication that swimming & diving technique is approaching perfection gave more importance to the nine championships decided. Individual titles...
...four races this year, each had won two. When they crouched on the starting line at Milwaukee last week for the 1,500-meter run in the national Amateur Athletic Union championships, Bill Bonthron of Princeton and Glenn Cunningham of Kansas knew that their fifth race would decide a series that has made track history...
...present time the Central Committee of the N.C.A.A. is considering Captain John M. Morse '34 and Anthony A. Bliss '36, 400-meter and 800-meter runners and decision regarding them will be made later this week...
...Coast, Cahners will compete in the hammer throw, Healey in the discus, and Scheu in the 1500 meter...