Word: metered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Criminal Mind. In Paris, police reported that someone broke into the Van Craeyenest Circus and stole a lion. In Oakland, Calif., Bert W. Harberg was arrested on charges of selling a government-owned bridge. In Sturgis, Ky., residents enjoyed one free parking space because someone stole a parking meter from Adams Street...
...University of Iowa's Wally Ris, a 195-lb. porpoise of a man, set out for the Olympic games last year, his father was mad: better his son should be painting the house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
Eastern champion Ted Norris couldn't quite match Bill Heusner of Northwestern or Ralph Sala of Stanford in the 1500-meter freestyle race last night in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the twenty-sixth annual National Collegiate Athletic Association swimming championships...
...Norris will share the University of North Carolina's pool in Chapel Hill with the best long-distance college freestylers in the country at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the finals of the NCAA 1500-meter freestyle...
Only Crimson champion in the three day competition was Ted Norris, who won the 1500-meter freestyle crown Thursday night. In so doing, Norris edged out Yale's Emil Estoclet, favored swimmer in the race...