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Word: meter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 Again | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...good day could bring Dillingham a title in either the one or three-meter dives. Dilingham finished second in the East in both events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Swimmers Enter NCAA Ohio Swim Meet | 3/26/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Swimmers Enter NCAA Ohio Swim Meet | 3/26/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Swimmers Enter NCAA Ohio Swim Meet | 3/26/1953 | See Source »

...family. My parking meter is running...

Author: By R. F. Crding, | Title: The Sliding Scale | 3/25/1953 | See Source »

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