Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While Australia's crack Breast-Stroker John Davies clipped the Olympic record in the 200-meter event, the University of Iowa's Bowen Stassforth bobbed in a close second to pick up another five points...
...Ohio State's 19-year-old Ford Konno smashed the Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle swimming record and wrapped up victory: his first put the U.S. out in front of the U.S.S.R. for the first time...
...meter relay swimming team, which set an Olympic mark...
...Navy's unbeaten crew, which chalked up the seventh straight Olympic victory for U.S. eights (the first: in 1920, also by an Annapolis crew), by a length and a quarter over Russia. ¶ Harrison Dillard, ex-Baldwin-Wallace College hurdler, who skimmed the 110-meter hurdles in an Olympic record time of 13.7 sec., closely trailed by U.S. Teammates Jack Davis and Arthur Barnard. -I Luxembourg's Joseph Barthel, who ran the 1,500-meter "metric mile" in 3 min. 45-2 sec., an Olympic record equaled by the silver medalist, Occidental College's Bob McMillen, clocked...
...other, seems to Mainardi to be "The Madonna on Horseback"; but to the reader she is just a pipe dream. When the cops put her away at the end of the book, it is no more poignant than a decision by the gas company to lock up the meter...