Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Sweden to show U.S. runners how a mile should be run (TIME, June 17), didn't bother to warm up. "This heat," said he, "I don't like it." Under a sizzling sun he used the first quarter of the race (the National A.A.U. 1,500 meter) to unlimber, and his time for it was a sleepy 65.4 seconds...
...were Orientals ever to fathom the inscrutable Western mind? Fifteen long blocks from the Diet Chamber, in the courtroom where Jap war criminals were being tried, spectators stood stiffly at attention as the judges filed out for the noon recess. The marshal of the court, Captain Donald S. Van Meter, rose and solemnly announced: "For the benefit of English-speaking persons, Louis won over Conn by a knockout in the eighth round...
Never a serious contender for the lead, the Crimson Varsity crew finished fifth in a field of eight Saturday afternoon in the 2,000-meter Lake Washington regatta, most important collegiate rowing meet of the season...
...oarsmen left last Saturday by plane for the 2,000 meter event which will see Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Navy, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, University of California, University of British Columbia, and, of course, the University of Washington Participating. Of this listing the first seven all defeated the crimson shell at Annapolis last month, though previously the local boatmen out stroked Princeton and MIT on the Charles...
...opposition in the 1,500-meter run at Compton College was not topflight, but Strand's time was. (Like Glenn Cunningham, he races against himself.) He ran, as usual, with both palms up, fingers curled -as though he were holding a glass of water in each hand. At the finish Strand was yards in front, unhurried, and two-tenths of a second off Les MacMitchell's meet record of 3:51.4. He might not run the four-minute mile at the San Antonio A.A.U. championships this month, but U.S. tracksters already regarded him with brooding respect...