Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the spray settled around the Indoor Athletic Building last Saturday night, diver Bob Aaron of the Crimson swimmers had walked off from the 3-meter board with an all high pool point total of 110.9 points, a most significant share in his teammates scuttling of the Brown sqquad...
Married. Lord Burghley, 41, chairman of the British Olympic Association, who won the 400-meter hurdles in the 1928 Olympics, became Bermuda's youngest Governor (1943-45); and Diana Forbes, 35; both for the second time; in London...
...hundred yard man for one meet against Brown before his departure for the stormier waters of Great Lakes, is one outstanding returnee from last year on whom Ulen leans heavily. Forbes Norris looms as the leading contender for the distance pulls, with National competition in the 1500 meter event under his belt. Paired with Gorman, and keeping him company all the way, Ulen hopes, will probably be John Watkins, an ex-trooper of the 82nd Airborne. Bob Snow, who took over Gorman's chores last year, will probably supply depth...
...countries came to the Pavilion de Breteuil outside Paris, solemnly squeezed into the little vault. There, reposing in a glass case, were the objects these delegates to the first postwar convention of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures had come to see: The Kilogram and The Meter, in person-the official standards of weight and measure for the world's metric system...
...Kilogram is a spool-sized chunk of 90% platinum, 10% iridium, weighing exactly one kilogram (2.2046 Ibs.). The Meter, a rod of the same alloy, is exactly one meter (39.37 in.) long. For nearly 70 years nations have sent their standards to the Pavilion de Breteuil for measuring and checking, but modern science has lessened the importance of The Meter at Paris. Instead of using a meter bar for a check, a scientist in a well-equipped laboratory can now determine the accurate meter in terms of light waves, which give as accurate a measure of distance as direct comparison...