Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee, Herb McKenley, long-legged Jamaica Negro, ran the 400-meter National A.A.U. championship in 45.9 (slicing a tenth of a second off the world record). Next day, Negro Harrison Dillard lost his first race in 83 starts; he overdid himself by running four races in little over one hour, lost two finals...
...Vandenberg because they knew where he stood, they conceded that Tom Dewey would not be too bad. Moscow, of course, stuck with damaging loyalty to Henry Wallace and denounced Dewey as a "prophet of imperialism." Le Parisien announced the governor's victory thus: "Tom Dewey is only one meter 56 centimeters tall, but his voice is the most radiophonic...
...last week, Mel Patton showed up at Minneapolis, and after gingerly testing his legs, announced that he would run in two National Collegiate championship events. Without too much strain, he won the 100-meter dash. Then, with a following wind, he stretched his long legs and covered the 200 meters in 28.7 seconds (equaling Jesse Owens' record time around a curve in the 1936 Olympics). Southern California's Patton was now ready for the final Olympic tryouts, and then a trip to London...
...Baldwin-Wallace College's high hurdling Harrison Dillard won a 110-meter exhibition, his 79th victory...
...York City's Van Cortlandt Park this week, a serious-faced group of aspirants-with bare legs and a sprinkling of bald heads-lined up for the big tryout in the 10,000-meter walking race. At the start, a few irreverent spectators began to snicker. The walkers, strutting along with exaggerated hip-wiggles, took no notice. They are used to playing to laughs every time they perform...