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Word: meter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Luxembourg 1500 meter Olympic champion, a student at the School of Public Health, will run against Horace Ashenfelter, Fred Dwyer, and Fred Wilt, none of whom seem capable of pushing Barthel to the much-discussed but never-achieved four-minute mile...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Josy Barthel Will Run Here May 15 Against Ashenfelter, Dwyer, Wilt | 5/5/1954 | See Source »

...poems, "Sackcloth and Ashes" and "Canossa in April" reveal the individual authors' exultation at various aspects of spring; one praises the dormant appeal of the Radcliffe girl, the other ridicules the idea of wearing clothes in the warm April days. Both are amusing despite some incredible meter...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Lampoon | 5/4/1954 | See Source »

...Oakland, the California crew, understroking Southern California, scored an easy two-length victory in a 2,000-meter race in the good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...gave it up at the end of his sophomore year and married Lucie Bedford, daughter of a New York industrialist-and an enthusiastic sailor. The young couple went to Europe on their honeymoon; Briggs bought a rip-snorting Alfa Romeo, but he was more interested in his six-meter yacht, which he had shipped over from Long Island Sound for racing on the Riviera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Back in the U.S., Cunningham, like many another of his generation, learned to fly airplanes. But sailing became his chief sport. Sparing nothing to get the best boats available, he won time & again in the tough six-meter class, and sailed against the best, e.g., Corny Shields, Arthur Knapp, in the top-drawer International Class. He also began collecting "classic" sports cars. Among them: a 1929 Bugatti Royale, a 1913 Mercer Raceabout, a 1909 American Underslung, a 1913 Peugeot, plus a mint collection of Bentleys. the $15,000 British sports car that Cunningham generally drives when he is not racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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