Word: meter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodds's races, including the New York Athletic Club's Baxter Mile, and sadly told reporters that the Iron Deacon had probably "run the last indoor race" of his career. But Ryder hoped to get Dodds back in shape to win the outdoor 1,500-meter Olympic championship at London this summer, before he retires to take up preaching fulltime...
Sunday, at the Concord jumping championships, the Crimson revived, made a treaty with lady luck, and beat the field of over forty contestants on the 30 meter jump. Griffin, who fell at Dartmouth, won the day with flights of 103 and 101 feet, while Coach Bill Halsey took third and Genn fourth...
...only person to win two gold medals in 1948's winter Olympics. He hurtled a snow-covered slope to win the men's downhill, and won the Alpine Combined event, too. Swedes kept grinding out victories-in the Pentathlon, the 10,000-meter speed skating, the 18-, 40-and 50-kilometer ski races. No U.S. skier was up to the rugged 50-kilometer (30¼-mile) grind through the Alps...
...main jumping tournaments of the East, it is held on a 60-meter hill with entries expected to go as high as 75 including men from Norway and Finland. The late Torger Tokle holds the record for the event with a leap of 230-feet established...
Jumping (40 meter): Griffin, Bogert, Genn, and Taylor. Nordblom for nordic combined only...