Word: meters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star of the swimming team, will receive the Eugene B. Wyman trophy for having scored the highest number of points in dual meet competition this year. Norris, who did not lose a race all season in his own event, the 440, placed third in the N.C.A.A. national championship 1500-meter competition...
...high hopes for the Gulf-coast submarine oilfields - although ownership of the offshore land is still undecided. Exploration by more conventional means - seismographic readings, examination of bottom samples - has indicated continuance of East Texas and Louisiana oilfields for distances as great as 50 miles offshore. By using a gravity meter in the diving chamber, Union Oil hopes to nose out salt domes. In the Gulf area these mounds of rock salt, which have a lower specific gravity than the surrounding sedimentary rocks, are often circled by rings of oil-bearing sand...
Machine Age. In San Diego, Sailor Willard Wheelus, after a rugged night in port, woke up in bed with a parking meter...
Housman's emotions were not only split between the great and the puerile; their range was remarkably narrow and primitive. His natural meter was quite as primitive-chiefly ballad stanzas (with some beautiful original variants on them), and the four-beat couplets which are the basic pulse of English poetry. But his subtle variety and mastery of tone, developed upon those few simple emotions and within that narrow range of key, are as remarkable as anything short of Mozart's minuets. Only the greatest poets had a better musical ear, a subtler handling of meter...
...have been selected for their outstanding work on the team during the past season. Hoelzer, who broke the Freshman breaststroke record in the St. George's meet, will try for the laurels in the breaststroke while Norris is entered in the 1500-meter grind, and might possibly also swim the quarter-mile...