Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crack of the starter's gun, the six swimmers plunged into the pool-Jimmy McLane just a splash ahead of the rest. For the first length of the 50-meter pool, the six were almost neck & neck. Then, almost imperceptibly, McLane began to draw away. Porpoising along at a steady 35 strokes to a length, he won last week's National A.A.U. 1,500-meter championship by a full length of Yale's Payne Whitney pool. Among the topflight swimmers Jimmy McLane left in his wake were Olympians John Marshall (of Australia and Yale), Peter Duncan...
...good day could bring Dillingham a title in either the one or three-meter dives. Dilingham finished second in the East in both events...
...competition begins tonight with finals in the 1500-meter freestyle, in which the Crimson has no entries. Friday and Saturday, finals will be run off in 13 events...
...crown last year, with the Elis second, Michigan third, and Michigan State fourth. In 1951, Yale took first, Michigan State second, and Ohio State third. The Buckeyes' chances for a repetition of their victory have been reduced by the illness of ace freestyler Ford Konno, who won the 1500-meter, the 440, and was third in the 220 freestyle last year...
...family. My parking meter is running...