Word: metered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were also a few events in which something like sportsmanship prevailed. Norway's Finn Helgesen set a new Olympic record of 43.1 seconds in the 500-meter skating race. Other winners...
Cross country and jumping, weak thus far, drew many members to Lobanon and Hanover. The Dartmouth jump at Hanover, a 50 meter flight, was ridden hard in preparation for the Big Green's carnival scheduled for next week...
17th Floor for Growing. On the roof, tenants will be able to run races around a 120-meter track, swim in a pool, lounge in a solarium. Children can do most of their growing up on the 17th floor: romp in a nursery, play games in a playground, train in a gymnasium, or go to classes in a schoolroom. On the seventh floor, parents can shop, eat at the restaurant or drugstore, visit the barber or clinic. "Relieved of the two great burdens of heavy housework and the care of children," Le Corbusier explains, "the family will live a happy...
Congress and state legislatures had appropriated millions to build super highways on which speeders could kill themselves at higher speeds. The traffic light, the yellow line, the parking lot, the parking meter, the underground garage, the one-way street, the motorcycle cop and the traffic ticket had all blossomed amid the monoxide fumes-and traffic had gone right on getting thicker and noisier year by year...
...best risks Coach Ulen ever had. In his Freshman year, when yearlings were still permitted varsity competition in 1945, he was undefeated in the 220 yard freestyle. Portentous of greater things to come was his showing in the NCAA, where he placed third in the 1500 meter event...