Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practice, all the season's regular races are sprints, with lengths ranging from the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles--"leave it to the British to pick such an unorthodox distance" says Bill Bingham--through the mile-and-three-quarters, two-mile, and 2000 meter courses...
...remains before the four-mile stint against Yale on June 25, but that time will definitely not be so easy for the oarsmen. As if practicing for the longest race in American rowing were not enough to worry about, the squad must also fit in practice for the 2000 meter Olympic trials the following week...
...less than 28 shells will wend their way over a 2000 meter sprint course, beginning at 10 o'clock with the first Freshman heat and continuing, with a mid-afternoon pause, until the final Varsity race at 6:30 o'clock in the evening...
Missing: $39.60 belonging to Clarissa Churchill, Winston's niece, now visiting Manhattan for the first time. Clarissa looked at the meter in a cab, saw the figure 40, handed $40 to the driver, who softly thanked her and quickly drove away...
...Prodigious John Woodruff, overtaking a pack of puny rivals in four giraffe strides to win the 800-meter...