Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style that recalled a comic-strip wife wielding a rolling pin, and set another American record: 145 ft. 4½ in. Only other double Olympics qualifier: Tennessee A. & I. State University Club's tiny (108 Ibs.) Mae Faggs, 24, who finished first in the 200-meter dash, second in the 100-meter dash. Saddest woman in Washington was Stella Walsh, 45, who competed for Poland in the 1932 and '36 Olympics, once held almost every record in the book, and was eligible to try for the U.S. team, thanks to her week-old marriage to a U.S. citizen...
Zarchin estimates that he could purify up to 80% of the sea water that enters his apparatus, claims a $10 million plant could turn out 1,000 gals, of fresh water per hour for 2? a cubic meter, less than half the present cost of water in the Negev. Zarchin's lesson may be a major political development in the thirsty Middle East. Huddled over his books last week in a stuffy Tel Aviv hotel room, Zarchin had no doubt of the outcome. "You'll see," he said quietly. "I'm no nudnik...
...Needled by Communist bigwigs, Russian track and field stars turned on the heat in the last few days of Moscow's Spartakiada sports festival. A runner virtually unknown in the West, Semyon Rzhishchin, lowered the world 3,000-meter steeplechase record to 8:39.8. Soviet swimmers dropped the 4OO-meter medley relay mark...
...Tennessee A. & I. State University Club's Mae Faggs, 24, almost ran away with the women's National A.A.U. championships in Philadelphia. She won the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and ran anchor leg on her club's winning 400-meter relay team. San Francisco's Pamela Kurrell, 17, skimmed the discus 140 ft. 11 in., to break the American record she had set just the day before...
...poet for whom we have been waiting." But English-reading people must take a French poetic reputation, like the credentials of ambassadors, largely on trust. In this bilingual sampler of his work, U.S. readers will be able to decide for themselves that measure for measure −man matched with meter−Rene Char stands a tall...