Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dillingham, the only Harvard representative in the nationals, took fourth place in the low board competition and ninth in the three meter event. He was also Eastern intercollegiate high board champion last year and second only to Yale's Frank Hadlich in the low board. In dual meet competition he was undefeated except for another loss to Hadlich, again in the one meter event; but he returned the next day to top the Yale star in the high dive...
...Wilson said last week, "we shall move through a wood of shade and sometimes darkness. But then I believe we shall come out into the clearing." To a group of Congressmen who wanted to know how dark the woods might be, Wilson and Deputy Manly Fleischmann handed a light meter (for the first quarter...
...show was 69-year-old "Granny" Nelly Cressall, Labor's grand old lady, whose pep talk was recorded and will be played at street corners during the campaign. Excerpt: "I remember the days when my neighbors used ter come and ask me fer a penny fer the gas meter-and I 'adn't got it. Now they come creatin' about their big gas bills. It makes me mad-'aven't they got memories? Don't they know what this wonderful party's done...
...dropped one meter every six seconds, all the while reporting regularly to Cosyns over a special telephone connected through the center of the cable. At 130 meters, the expedition got a bad scare when a short circuit cut off communication for a few moments. But by the time the windlass dial registered 300 meters, excitement on the surface was running high. If Lépineux continued for just a little longer, he would break the long-standing vertical drop record of 318 meters.* "Stop," he finally called. "I am on the bottom." The windlass dial registered 356 meters...
...Mary McNabb, 17, Tuskegee Institute freshman, the 200 meter dash in 0:24.3 seconds (new U.S. record) and the 50 meter dash in 0:06.4 seconds (tying the U.S. record) at the National Amateur Athletic Union Junior Track & Field Championships; in Waterbury, Conn...