Word: meters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spencer's play, unusual in plot, and construction, deals with an investigation into the lives of long-dead citizens by the government of the United States. It will employ music partially synchronized with the meter of the verse, and a chorus in the background...
...revealed that Eric Cutler, tired after his epochal 1500-meter second, had swum a heat of the 440, but that his time of 5:03 was too slow to quality for the finals. Cutler's ailing arm was another factor to slow him up. Frannie Powers won his heat of the quarter in 5:08, but his time was too slow...
Rusty Greenhood, only Crimson man who is staying in the mid-west for the National A.A.U. meet this weekend, scored 130 points to take fourth in the three-meter dive. Henham, of Michigan, beat him by three-tenths of a point for third, while second-place Earl Clark was within a point of both...
...week the middle-distance flash of the season, Negro Portrait Painter & Student John Borican of Columbia University, who week before had jumped the gun to beat Glenn Cunningham in Manhattan in the fastest 1,000 yards ever run, went to Dartmouth to see how fast he could run 800 meters and the half-mile (880 yards). Spaced out to pace him were four Dartmouth runners with handicaps of from 10 to 95 yards. Careful was Borican this time to be off with the gun and not before. He turned off the quarter in a sweet 52.4, overhauled the pacers...
...seconds off his time would have bettered every 800-meter and 880-yard mark in the books. The official 800-meter world record of 1:49.6 is held by Elroy Robinson, but is about to be replaced by Sydney Wooderson's 1:48.4 of last summer.* For the half mile, Wooderson's 1:49.2 is the pending record...