Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jovial over his crews' successes, coach Tom Bolles praised them generously after the regatta and revealed that the varsity had rowed the 2000 meter distance in a record-breaking 6:05 in practice before the E.A.R.C. and hence had chafed particularly about losing to Tech...
...Francisco, mortally afraid that it would be credited with fewer than the 827,000 inhabitants who were officially counted during a special census in 1945, was sending cops, firemen, and meter readers out to track down uncounted citizens. Seattle, which has 508,096 names in its city directory, had a fevered hunch that the census count would be less than a half million (1940 pop. 368,000). Its city council appropriated $800 to provide enumerators with free bus fares. Idaho Falls cried that it had been robbed by census-takers of 15% of its population...
...Meter. In Upton, England, the Rev. Sidney Clarence Jones warned that henceforth any bride who keeps her impatient groom waiting at the altar will be fined a shilling (14?) a minute after the first 5 minutes...
...only race of the season, the freshman heavy second crew earned its numerals by defeating the Crimson freshman third boat by three lengths, and the M.I.T. second freshmen by three and one-half lengths over the 2000-meter course on the Charles yesterday. The winning time was 6:27, under good conditions...
When it last rowed in Seattle, rowing center of the country, the Crimson led the field and set a national record in the process by rowing the 2000 meter course...