Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olympic Team was far off form in lackluster practice meets at Berkeley, Calif. Star Sprinter Bobby Morrow finished a puffing third in one 100-meter dash, fourth in another, while University of California Alternate Leamon King has twice tied the pending world's record with 10.1-sec. wins. Said U.S. Track and Field Coach "Dink" Templeton, complaining that some of the boys apparently haven't trained all summer: "Unless they show improvement, there will be some astonishing upsets at Melbourne...
They may have been watching a future Olympic champion, for the bigger runner was Tom Courtney, one of the U.S.A.'s entrants in the 800 meter run. The man with him was one of Harvard's greatest track and field men ever, the 1955 captain, Bob Rittenburg...
Rittenburg's function was to aid Courtney's training. The former Crimson ace would have been preparing himself, too, except that he came in fifth in the final of the Olympic 400-meter hurdle trial last summer, after winning the event at the Armed Services championships...
Since early spring Dr. Kraus has received irregular bursts of 11-meter radio waves from Venus. Every day he measured a rough peak of radio activity, and the peaks came earlier each day by a little less than two hours. After diagraming the peaks, Dr. Kraus concluded that Venus revolves on its axis in about...
...Zaharias, 42, sinewy, square-jawed Texas tomboy who played baseball with a House of David team, barnstormed nationally in basketball, boasted "Ah'm gonna lick you!" and did in 632 out of 634 women's athletic events in her teens, set records (later broken) in the 80-meter hurdles and javelin throw in the 1932 Olympics (where she also tied for first place in the high jump, was dropped to second for her unorthodox style), discovered golf in 1931 and was soon outdriving men ("You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have...