Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surveying 1956 track records, the International Amateur Athletic Federation approved some impressive achievements. Among the new world record holders: Air Force Lieut. Parry O'Brien with a 63 ft. 1¾ in. shot put, Duke's Dave Sime with 20-sec. 200-meter dash...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 28--Yale's powerful swimming team received a slight jolt in the first event of the 34th NCAA Championships here last night. Michigan's Fritz Myers pulled even with the Elis' Ray Ellison at the three-quarters mark in the 1500-meter freestyle, then stroked on to upset the Eastern champion in 19:04.8. This ties the Tar Heel Pool record set in 1949 by N. Heusner of North-western...
Dyer's best chance is in the 100-yard freestyle, where his listed time of 49.0 is 0.8 seconds better than that of any other entrant. Robin Moore of Stanford, the world record-holder at 48.9, was injured in football this fall and wil not compete. Olympic 100-meter freestyler Dick Hanley of Michigan (49.8), Don Patterson (50.0) of Michigan State, and the Yale trio of Roger Anderson (50.1), Dave Armstrong (50.1), and Rex Aubrey (50.2) will offer the chief opposition...
...adventure spiritually!" All of this is achieved by putting oneself in a semihypnotic trance, the main danger of which "is that you might go to sleep." If sleep is evaded, one flips to the front of the book and charts one's emotional score on a "Mood Meter" which contains 30 ratings from + 15 ("Ecstatic") to -15 ("Miserable"), with such in-between moods as +9 ("Gay") and -11 ("Disgusted...
...Grade Lead. In Oklahoma City, Elmer Anderson of the Water Department answered a call for assistance, unlocked a water meter cover, retrieved a stubby, well-chewed pencil for a worried eight-year-old, gently asked if his mother didn't have a better pencil, was told, "That's the pencil I make the best grades with...