Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second night of competition on the floodlit field, Mathias almost came a cropper in one of his specialties, the 110-meter hurdles. Winging off to a sprint start, Mathias knocked over three of the ten barriers, but still managed to beat his best previous decathlon time, 0:14.7, by a tenth of a second. He threw the discus nearly 158 ft., pole-vaulted 12 ft. 3 3/4 in. (9 inches under his best mark), made a prodigious javelin throw of nearly 194 ft., and wound up his two nights' work with a 4:55.3 clocking...
...fast-stroking standout. But at Yale his talent was submerged at first in the backwash of two spectacular teammates: Australia's John Marshall, holder of the world 440-yd. free-style record, and Jimmy McLane, who, as an Andover schoolboy of 17, became the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle champion. Last week, after a lengthening string of victories over Marshall and McLane, Yale's newly elected Team Captain Moore, 20, finally kicked the "third-stringer" tag far into his own foamy wake...
...meter pool on the old New York World's Fair grounds, Swimmer Moore plunged into the water for the final 400-meter free-style heat of the U.S. Olympic tryouts. Marshall, who will compete for Australia in the Olympics, was not in the run, but Jimmy McLane was, and so was Ohio State's wiry Hawaiian star, Ford Konno, one of the world's best free-style swimmers. Splashing immediately into the lead, Yale's Moore cut the water like a hungry shark. At the 100-meter mark he led Yale Teammate McLane by two feet...
...Army Medical Corps-sawed-off (5 ft. if in.) Major Samuel ("Sammy") Lee, 1948 Olympic high (10-meter) diving champion, who, though aging (31) and not quite up to his old form, easily won the No. 1 berth in his event with 842.65 points...
...University of Texas-carrot-topped junior, David ("Skippy") Browning, 21, first-or second-place taker in every national springboard (3-meter) diving meet since 1948, a perfectionist who showed almost splashless style last week in piling up his winning 1,037.45 points...