Word: meters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile, hurdles, relay, and high jump, each college pits the stars of its team against the other's. Green in the 50-meter hurdles will face Pessoni of Manhattan as his chief opponent in a record breaking race...
...prides itself on music classes by radio. There are public concerts by the Music School faculty and every spring a May Festival at Ann Arbor. The University holds institutes for parent-teacher clubs, for women's clubs, for owners of timberland. It gives courses for industrial foremen, for meter-readers. It is a big brother to the public school system, arranging examinations, promoting orchestras and debating clubs. The State relies on it for research on highways, conservation, fisheries...
...more have been sold. Last week he reported that the average domestic consumption of power jumped from 793 kwh. in 1933 to 858 kwh. last year. His latest innovation is to offer free current to customers who increase their consumption by certain amounts. Thus, if a householder boosts his meter reading 10 kwh. per month, he may have the next 50 kwh. without charge...
...year. In this week's workouts, he ran the 600 within one and four fifths seconds of the time which Fuqua, the speedy western runner, made in the K. of C. meet. The favorite in the half-mile will be Elien Brown, Kansan who won the junior national 800-meter title last year in 1:52.02. Though Bliss is not expected to heat Brown, the Harvard runner may take second place...
...fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Blue Hall Meteorological Observatory on Friday, an informal luncheon and a program of three minute talks on phases of the observatory's history and present work has been arranged. These talks are to be broadcast from the observatory's experimental five meter radio transmitter, W1XW, probably between 2.38 and 3 o'clock, and will be primarily for the benefit of the staff of the Mt. Washington Observatory, a subsidiary of Blue Hill...